netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10767] New: Seg Fault Instead of Swapping

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805241156120.27780@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Sat, 24 May 2008 11:57:51 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	Brian Vowell <brian.vowell@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10767] New: Seg Fault Instead of Swapping

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Brian Vowell wrote:

> > Aha, it seems you got TCP into the invalid state which I recently added
> > check for :-), I'll try to figure out how that could still happen (I think
> > I tried to find such code path already earlier but it seems that there's
> > still something I've overlooked). Though this is not directly going to
> > cause the 2539 WARNING, yet it could, after some other (probably rare
> > condition) possibly lead to that as well if this invariant is assumed to
> > hold while doing some state manipulation elsewhere in TCP (though I
> > think that's not too likely). In case you don't see them too often, you
> > can well continue with the patch in order to find the cause for 2539 as
> > well (and just ignore those occassional net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3297 ones for
> > now).
> 
> 
> Do you want me to continue emailing these traces as they appear in my logs?

...Yes, in case you get something different than the WARNING at 3297.
I have at least one suspect already which could lead to that 3297 :-).

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