netdev - Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c

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Date:	Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:13:48 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 18:05 +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
> but given the amount of changes currently 
> going into net/ I thought this might be interesting:
> 
> [15604.137408] RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (2595)

> [15604.138807]  [<c038c612>] __dev_set_promiscuity+0xc2/0xd0
> [15604.139163]  [<c038c9bb>] dev_set_promiscuity+0x1b/0x40
> [15604.139515]  [<f91cb3fb>] VNetBridgeStartPromisc+0x2b/0x50 [vmnet]

Not sure why this would be interesting. Clearly, dev_set_promiscuity is
called without the RTNL held while it should be. And see who the caller
is?

johannes

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