netdev - Re: Oops in tcp_output.c, kernel 2.6.38-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:07:24 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
From:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	"cebbert@...hat.com" <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	bruce.w.allan@...el.com
Subject: Re: Oops in tcp_output.c, kernel 2.6.38-rc3



On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, David Miller wrote:

> From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:32:54 -0500
> 
> > Analysis is below. (From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674622)
> > 
> >  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
> >  IP: [<ffffffff81407b16>] tcp_write_xmit+0x694/0x7af
> 
> I bet this is some kind of bug in the driver or similar, what device
> and also what kind of network config (netfilter, packet scheduler,
> interface, routes, etc.) is this?

glaring at the bug dump shows e1000e as the only network driver that i can 
see, hardware seems to be the ICH10 chipset.  Copied bruce in case he's 
seen or heard anything.

appears to be this system:
http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=qH6ZSEJ8EPY6HoNU&content=specifications

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