linux-kernel - Re: [OOPS] In __netif_receive_skb

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:06:26 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>
Cc:	Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...sta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OOPS] In __netif_receive_skb_core

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 02:51 +0200, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote:

> 
> I put some additional printks around that code, and it turned out that 
> skb->dev is null, so "if (unlikely(skb->dev != orig_dev))" succeeds, but 
> "&skb->dev->ptype_specific" oopses.

Nice find !

Now lets find what possibly called netif_rx() with skb->dev == NULL 

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