netdev - Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:00:16 -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: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:00:17 -0700

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:46 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Since Josip can readily reproduce this problem, let's confirm if the SKB
> is split while it is cloned.  Please try this debug patch:

Another good place to check would be __pskb_trim_head() in
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c but the skb_cloned() check in one of that
function's only callers (tcp_trim_head) is rather explicit :-)
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