Herbert, You're right, I don't know whether it'll fix the problem Ben saw or not, but it looks like the original code can do a receive before the in_device is fully initialized, and that, of course, is bad. If the device for ip_rcv() is not the same one we were initializing when the receive interrupted, then the patch should have no effect either way -- I don't think it'll hide other problems. If it's hard to reproduce (which I guess is true), then you're right, no soft lockup doesn't really tell us if it's fixed or not.
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