netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue

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Message-ID: <20100108220228.GB3078@del.dom.local>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2010 23:02:28 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	flyboy@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit()

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 04:48:11PM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
> On 1/8/2010 4:29 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:40:25AM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
> >>On 1/8/2010 2:45 AM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >>...
> >Berck Nash reported oopses during sky2 TX timeout recovery, which are
> >generally hardware/driver problems, and shouldn't be triggered by ip
> >level bugs, so it should be queried as a separate bug report.
> >
> My thought was that his crash was secondary to the netdev watchdog &
> subsequent reset that I saw.

Yes, the netdev watchdog which triggers on TX timeout.

Jarek P.
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