netdev - Re: 3.7.3+: Bad paging request in ip_rcv_finish while running NFS traffic.

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Message-ID: <1358991906.12374.1356.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:45:06 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.7.3+:  Bad paging request in ip_rcv_finish while running NFS
 traffic.

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:10 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Excellent, thats the bug.
> 
> I'll send a fix asap, thanks !

loopback device doesnt have a qdisc, and unsets IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE

Its hard to believe such an old bug never hit us in the past.

Probably because most of the time, the packet given to netif_rx() is
immediately processed (and loopback device is hard wired ?)


diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index 81f8f9e..fcbf680 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	skb_orphan(skb);
 
+	/* Before queueing this packet to netif_rx(),
+	 * make sure dst is refcounted.
+	 */
+	skb_dst_force(skb);
+
 	skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
 
 	/* it's OK to use per_cpu_ptr() because BHs are off */


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