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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:20:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi Cc: brian.vowell@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10767] New: Seg Fault Instead of Swapping From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:12:04 +0300 (EEST) > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> > > Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:24:33 +0300 (EEST) > > > > Ilpo, do you want me to apply this to net-2.6? > > Yes thanks, it is necessary to keep the state consistent (it also explains > some .22/23 time left_out warn_ons too which were mysterious back then). > Also -stable (I guess it would be necessary to almost any older stable > too though some older ones might want to sync left_out on that same place > too). > > It was nice that this path was also triggered while running the TCP > debug patch (I haven't gotten a one in here), otherwise we would never > have known though I started to suspect that such path existed once I > tried to analyze those left_out problems (before it got dropped > altogether), but I just couldn't find the problem because it lies on > such "error path" which was too easy to overlook. Ok I've add the patch to net-2.6, thanks! > I also finally have found the cause to the !sacked_out && fackets_out > trap :-). ...I'll post the fix to that later today to relevant parties. I'll have a look at this too :-) Thanks for all of your incredible work on TCP bug fixing! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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