netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13760] New: 2.6.30 kernel locks up with pppoe in back trace (regression)

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Message-ID: <20090725033328.GA30919@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:33:28 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	for.poige+bugzilla.kernel.org@...il.com,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13760] New: 2.6.30 kernel locks up with pppoe
	in back trace (regression)

Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a link showing around pppoe problem quite similar to
> the one fixed later in pty.c by Alan Cox, so IMHO the current
> 2.6.31-rc is worth trying.

Well it depends on whether he's using the kernel pppoe stack or
doing pppoe in user-space.  If the latter then yes those fixes
may help.  Otherwise we really need to see the backtraces.

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