netdev - Re: Kernel problem

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Message-ID: <20090226130631.GA14125@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:06:31 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, ash@...sky.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel problem

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:10:37AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> netpoll supports receiving packets and has a trap handler to eat them
> to avoid packets it is interested in going into the real stack.
> (netpoll_receive_skb, netpoll_rx_skb, etc.)

OK after much head scratching and staring, it turns out that
this is caused by the VLAN path not doing the netpoll check
which would normally drop the packets when a printk is active.

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