netdev - Re: 3.5.1 fib_rules

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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:35:34 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: 3.5.1 fib_rules_lookup oops

Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> writes:
>
> Same user reported a slew of other problems, so he may have bad hardware.
> I've asked him to run a memtest to rule that out.

Bad DIMM is unlikely to cause random ASCII in memory. That's more like a
bad DMA or a buffer overflow in some driver. I would look for a unique
driver that user is using.

-Andi

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