netdev - Re: IPV6: ip6_pol_route panic when doing interface up and down continuously with ipv6 traffic

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Date:	Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:49:09 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Sasikanth babu <sasikanth.v19@...il.com>
Cc:	"open list:ETHERNET BRIDGE" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	pekkas@...core.fi, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: IPV6: ip6_pol_route panic when doing interface up and down continuously with ipv6 traffic

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:48:00AM +0530, Sasikanth babu wrote:
> I have been getting two kernel panics in ipv6 stack with 2.6.34.10
> kernel. One in ip6_pol_route and other one is in ip6_pkt_drop
> function. It is being observed when we did interface up and down
> continuously while ipv6 traffic going on.
> 
> I looked out for the patches and verified the kernel commit messages I
> could not find anything related to these panics.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Sorry, no, besides maybe trying a newer kernel.

Maybe some reference counting on the idev or dev being wrong. I am sure there
were some changes in recent kernels that might affect this.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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