netdev - Re: BUG in skb_pull with e1000e, PPTP, and L2TP

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Message-ID: <CAJuWrdsg3Gz=Z8UYRCoca2zuGgS1EfJjjYrtuo21TQ_oGFEh2g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:30:51 -0500
From:	Bradley Peterson <despite@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: BUG in skb_pull with e1000e, PPTP, and L2TP

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:19:53 -0500
> Bradley Peterson <despite@...il.com> wrote:
>
>>  using 3rd
>> party pptp and l2tp modules.
>
> More than likely your 3rd party modules are buggy and
> can't handle all the possible types of skb layout.
> I have seen out of tree code that can't handle non-linear
> skb's. You need to take it up with the those developer.
>

Oh, I should've been more clear -- I am no longer using any 3rd party
modules.  That referred to my previous setup with 2.6.22 (I knew
better than to report that).  This bug is with 2.6.38 using in-tree
modules.

Bradley Peterson
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