netdev - Re: Oops in 2.6.21-rc4, 2.6.23

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:41:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...pl
Cc:	darko.koruga@...l.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in 2.6.21-rc4, 2.6.23

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:42:32 +0100

> I hope you've found this by yourself by now, but:
> 
> 1. These are warnings only - not oopses.
> 2. It seems this patch you've found to be responsible for this all
> slightly changes some limits, which is not necessarily wrong; the
> lucky thing is you can change these limits with sysctl or some
> echos to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem, I presume. (Or more safely by
> adding some memory.)

Actually, this was caused by a real bug in the SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD macro
definition, which Herbert Xu quickly spotted and fixed.

Which "I hope you've found this by yourself by now".
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