netdev - Re: [BUG PATCH NET-NEXT-2.6] kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit: remove faulty software TX time stamping

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Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:42:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	patrick.ohly@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, emil.s.tantilov@...el.com,
	john.ronciak@...el.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [BUG PATCH NET-NEXT-2.6] kernel panic in dev_hard_start_xmit:
 remove faulty software TX time stamping

From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@...el.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:28:08 +0100

> The current implementation of the TX software time stamping fallback is
> faulty because it accesses the skb after ndo_start_xmit() returns
> successfully. This patch removes the fallback, which fixes kernel panics
> seen during stress tests. Hardware time stamping is not affected by this
> removal.
> 
> Signed-Off: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@...el.com>
> Signed-Off: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>

It's "Signed-of-by", three words, only the first capitalized.

Aplied, thanks.
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