linux-kernel - Re: [crash] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1328!

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:20:20 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [crash] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1328!

David Miller wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>> Maybe the network drivers are few enough that it will get fixed, or
>> maybe the WARN_ON_ONCE() will just be removed and the rule not
>> reinforced.
>>
>> I personally suspect the latter, since it seems to happen with just
>> about _any_ random network driver, including the common and
>> well-maintained ones (ie the Gods only help us for the truly
>> odd/random cases)
> 
> Yes, we'll see how this plays out.
> 
> Ian Schram just posted a patch for the NULL pointer derfer in
> wireless Ingo reported, so we'll see if that bug will be fixed
> now as well.

In the meantime:  Is there perhaps something obviously wrong with 
drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c's netdevice initialization?  We do it in 
ether1394_add_host(), and shortly thereafter the crashing 
ether1394_host_reset() is called.  So we have essentially

(add host)
	dev = alloc_netdev(...);
	initialize various members in dev...
	register_netdev(dev);

(host reset)
	netif_stop_queue(dev);
	discard some stale 1394 stuff if there were some...
	netif_wake_queue(dev);  <-- crashes in __netif_schedule(dev);

-- 
Stefan Richter
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