netdev - Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:45:54 +0300
From:	"Aviv Greenberg" <avivgnet@...il.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mchan@...adcom.com, joy@...ian.org, billfink@...dspring.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mirrors@...ian.org
Subject: Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:46, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> So it has to be something else.

What mechanism prevents the clone from happening between
the skb_clone() and skb_split() calls in tcp_fragment?

Maybe there's a path that doesn't take a lock...
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