Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:58:05 +0100 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: possible bug in tcp_input.c |
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On Oct-24 2003, Fri, 19:57 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > /* tcp_input.c, line 1138 */ > > static inline int tcp_head_timedout(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_opt *tp) > > { > > return tp->packets_out && tcp_skb_timedout(tp, skb_peek(&sk->write_queue)); > > } > > tp->packets_out > 0 implies that there is at least one packet in the write > queue (it counts the number of unacked packets in flight, which are kept > in the write queue). When that's not the case something else is wrong.
Yes, that's exactly what davem said. The corruption is happening somewhere in netsched/imq code that's not even part of the official kernel tree (and I'm told there's nobody to maintain the patch at present).
Thanks, -- Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
P.S. I can post the patchset we've been using on the crashing machines in case someone's interested, it's reasonably short:
9101 Jul 6 11:48 bridge-nf-0.0.7-against-2.4.22pre3.diff.gz 4123 Jul 6 11:14 imq-2.4.22pre3-1.diff.gz 1883 Jul 6 12:01 imq-nf-20030625-2.4.22pre3.diff.gz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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