netdev - Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

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Message-Id: <20080709.164659.157912631.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	joy@...ian.org, billfink@...dspring.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mirrors@...ian.org
Subject: Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:57:05 -0700

> That was just a debug patch.  The proper fix needs to go into
> tso_fragment() as David outlined earlier.

Actually I went investigating this and all the code paths check for
skb_cloned() and if true they make a copy of the data area (and thus
the skb_shared_info()) and this should ensure that the driver doesn't
see changing nr_frags values.

So it has to be something else.
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