netdev - Re: Fw: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:44 -0400
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kolo@...atani.cz,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack

Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> wrote:
> 
> One more alternative along those lines could perhaps be:
> 
> We enter with empty write_queue there and with the hint being null, so we 
> take the else branch... and skb_peek then gives us the NULL ptr. However, 
> I cannot see how this could happen as all branches trap with return 
> before the reach tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue.

Why don't we add a WARN_ON in there and see if it triggers?

Thanks,
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