netdev - Re: linux 2.6.32.46 crashes

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Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:56:49 -0600
From:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
To:	Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@...m.de>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, "gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux 2.6.32.46 crashes

On 08/30/2011 02:31 PM, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded several machines from 2.6.32.43 to 2.6.32.46 and
> they all crashed when the kernel boots.
>
> I bisected it to the following commit:
>
>
> 35ed3d0fb62804090a3f21a7ce84c538a6ff852f is the first bad commit
> commit 35ed3d0fb62804090a3f21a7ce84c538a6ff852f
> Author: Alexey Dobriyan<adobriyan@...il.com>
> Date:   Tue Feb 16 09:05:04 2010 +0000
>
>      tunnels: fix netns vs proto registration ordering
>
>      commit d5aa407f59f5b83d2c50ec88f5bf56d40f1f8978 upstream.
>
>      Same stuff as in ip_gre patch: receive hook can be called before netns
>      setup is done, oopsing in net_generic().
>
>      Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan<adobriyan@...il.com>
>      Signed-off-by: David S. Miller<davem@...emloft.net>
>      Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@...e.de>
>
> :040000 040000 6338c45b1372e7e3c5a5ef466dc365cc47a2e152 cde6b92bab403d860cca90e8232cb9c03090fc7e M      net
>
>
> Reverting it on top of 2.6.32.46 fixes the problem for me.
>

<snip>

Wolfgang - see if this patch fixes your problem.

rtg

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@...onical.com

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