netdev - Re: CAKE and r8169 cause panic on upload in v4.19

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Date:   Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:44:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     oleksandr@...alenko.name
Cc:     dave.taht@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com, toke@...e.dk,
        jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CAKE and r8169 cause panic on upload in v4.19

From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:54:12 +0200

> Next, I've seen GRO bits in the call trace and decided to disable GRO
> on this NIC. So far, I cannot trigger a panic with GRO disabled even
> after 20 rounds of speedtest.
> 
> So, must be some generic thing indeed.

Yeah something is out-of-whack with GRO.

Does this fix it?

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 022ad73d6253..77d43ae2a7bb 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5457,7 +5457,7 @@ static void gro_flush_oldest(struct list_head *head)
 	/* Do not adjust napi->gro_hash[].count, caller is adding a new
 	 * SKB to the chain.
 	 */
-	list_del(&oldest->list);
+	skb_list_del_init(oldest);
 	napi_gro_complete(oldest);
 }