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SubjectRe: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related
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Hello!

> If send_head doesn't point to skb then it is before it (and it cannot
> advance under us of course because we hold the sock lock) and so in such
> case we didn't clobbered the send_head at all in skb_entail, and so we
> don't need to touch send_head in order to undo (we only need to unlink).
>
> See?

I see! Dave, please, take the second Andrea's patch (appended).
It is really the cleanest one.

Alexey


--- 2.4.4aa3/net/ipv4/tcp.c.~1~ Tue May 1 10:44:57 2001
+++ 2.4.4aa3/net/ipv4/tcp.c Tue May 1 12:00:25 2001
@@ -1183,11 +1183,8 @@

do_fault:
if (skb->len==0) {
- if (tp->send_head == skb) {
- tp->send_head = skb->next;
- if (tp->send_head == (struct sk_buff*)&sk->write_queue)
- tp->send_head = NULL;
- }
+ if (tp->send_head == skb)
+ tp->send_head = NULL;
__skb_unlink(skb, skb->list);
tcp_free_skb(sk, skb);
}
-
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