netdev - Re: [Oops] fib_trie with ip route add throw since 2.6.25

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Message-ID: <20080709045541.GA26981@yuri.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:55:41 +0200
From:	William Boughton <bill@...ghton.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [Oops] fib_trie with ip route add throw since 2.6.25

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 08:57:45PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

Hello,

> [...]
> 
> The changes to check_leaf() and fn_trie_lookup() seem to be wrong - where
> fn_trie_lookup() would previously return a negative error value from
> check_leaf(), it now returns 0.
> 
> Now fn_trie_lookup() doesn't appear to care about plen, so we could revert
> check_leaf() to returning the error value.  How does this work?
> 

I have been running with this patch on 2.6.26-rc9 on a  machine for 
24 hours on a machine that caused the oops before without any problems.


regards

Bill
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Bill Boughton
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