linux-kernel - Re: linux-next - crashes in rhashtable

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Message-ID: <20150129150047.GB12634@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:00:47 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next - crashes in rhashtable_shrink

On 01/29/15 at 09:57am, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> For the past few kernels, I've seen occasional crashes in rhashtable_shrink.
> Looks like the last thing to touch that code was the patch series:
> 
> Subject	[PATCH 0/9 net-next v2] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred table resizing
> Date	Fri, 2 Jan 2015 23:00:13 +0100

Thanks for the report! Based on a similar report I've already tracked
this down to race condition. I'm in the final stages of submitting a
series of fixes for it.
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