Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:42:10 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sundance: Fix oopses with corrupted skb_shared_info | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:12:17 +0100
> [PATCH net-2.6] sundance: Fix oopses with corrupted skb_shared_info > > Joel Soete reported oopses at the beginning of pppoe connections since > v2.6.35. After debugging the bug was found in sundance skb allocation > and dma mapping code, where skb_reserve() bytes aren't taken into > account. This is an old bug, only uncovered by some change in 2.6.35. > > Initial debugging patch by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> > > Reported-by: Joel Soete <soete.joel@scarlet.be> > Tested-by: Joel Soete <soete.joel@scarlet.be> > Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied, great work Jarek.
I was auditing ppp_generic.c hoping I'd find something, but if I had that backtrace I wouldn't have bothered :-)
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