netdev - Re: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:52:11 +0200 (EET)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, kolo@...atani.cz,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:24:46 -0800 (PST)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Ilpo J__rvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:54:53 +0200 (EET)
> > 
> > > [PATCH] tcp: clear hints to avoid a stale one (nfs only affected?)
> > 
> > Ok, since Linus just released 2.6.32 I'm tossing this into net-next-2.6
> > so it gets wider exposure.
> > 
> > I still want to see test results from the bug reporter, and if it fixes
> > things we can toss this into -stable too.
> 
> Despite my request to take this to email, quite a few people have been
> jumping onto this report via bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14470
> 
> Bit of a pita, but it'd be worth someone taking a look to ensure that
> we're all talking about the same bug.

Could one try with this debug patch:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126624014117610&w=2

It should prevent crashing too.

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