netdev - Re: [net-2.6][2.6.38-rc2] panic during stress testing

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Date:	Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:46:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeffrey.e.pieper@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6][2.6.38-rc2] panic during stress testing

From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:12:03 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> neigh appears to be zero? since the check just above in dst_destroy was 
> checking it against NULL already, maybe we have a race, with some other 
> free of neigh (assigned from dst->neighbor)
> 
> This is quickly getting beyond me, I tried to check for some changes 
> around dst->neighbor but didn't see anything recent.

"neigh" is non-zero, however it is freed memory and thus unmapped by
the "use after free" debugging code.

That's why it OOPS's.
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