Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-19 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:05:53 +1000 > I wrote: > > > So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case > > where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is > > 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protoc

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-19 Thread Herbert Xu
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case >> where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is >> 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol numbe

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-19 Thread Bartek
Your fix is probably needed too. However, I think the issue that Patrick was trying to fix is the case where p[0] != PPP_ALLSTATIONS and therefore we'd still have a problem there. I tested Paul's patch for last few days and I think everything seems ok. The system is stable. Regards Bartek - To

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Hi Paul: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case > where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is > 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of > 0xff. Arguably that's wrong s

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-18 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Hi, I didn't analyse this bug report but probably it is nearly connected with one of the bugs visible in a log from this submit: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8132 On 15-04-2007 02:50, Paul Mackerras wrote: > David Miller writes: > >> Here is Patrick McHardy's patch: > > So this d

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick McHardy
Bartek wrote: > 2007/4/14, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:43:39 +0200 >> >> > It seems we fail to reserve enough headroom for the case >> > buf[0] == PPP_ALLSTATIONS and buf[1] != PPP_UI. >> > >> > Can you try this patc

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-15 Thread Bartek
2007/4/14, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:43:39 +0200 > It seems we fail to reserve enough headroom for the case > buf[0] == PPP_ALLSTATIONS and buf[1] != PPP_UI. > > Can you try this patch please? Any confirmation of this f

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
I wrote: > So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case > where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is > 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of I meant "the second byte is NOT 0x03", of course. Paul. - To unsubscribe fr

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
David Miller writes: > Here is Patrick McHardy's patch: So this doesn't change process_input_packet(), which treats the case where the first byte is 0xff (PPP_ALLSTATIONS) but the second byte is 0x03 (PPP_UI) as indicating a packet with a PPP protocol number of 0xff. Arguably that's wrong since

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-14 Thread Patrick McHardy
David Miller wrote: > From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:49:28 +1000 > > >>I didn't see the patch (the message that this is a reply to is the >>first one that I have seen in this thread), so I can't comment on it. > > > Here is Patrick McHardy's patch: > > [..

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-14 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:49:28 +1000 > I didn't see the patch (the message that this is a reply to is the > first one that I have seen in this thread), so I can't comment on it. Here is Patrick McHardy's patch: diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_async.c b/driv

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
David Miller writes: > > It seems we fail to reserve enough headroom for the case > > buf[0] == PPP_ALLSTATIONS and buf[1] != PPP_UI. > > > > Can you try this patch please? > > Any confirmation of this fix yet? Indeed, ppp_async doesn't handle that case correctly. RFC 1662 says: The Con

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It seems we fail to reserve enough headroom for the case >> buf[0] == PPP_ALLSTATIONS and buf[1] != PPP_UI. >> >> Can you try this patch please? > > Any confirmation of this fix yet? FWIW the fix definitely looks correct (the bug has been there for ye

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-13 Thread David Miller
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:43:39 +0200 > Bartek wrote: > > Hopefully, this time it my bug report should be ok :): > > > > Apr 11 23:53:38 localhost pppd[31289]: rcvd [proto=0x7689] e1 cd 33 f6 > > fd f7 52 e6 58 c9 73 98 bc ff ad d5 b5 a3 e5 d9 1e 77 76 0a

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-11 Thread Patrick McHardy
Bartek wrote: > Hopefully, this time it my bug report should be ok :): > > Apr 11 23:53:38 localhost pppd[31289]: rcvd [proto=0x7689] e1 cd 33 f6 > fd f7 52 e6 58 c9 73 98 bc ff ad d5 b5 a3 e5 d9 1e 77 76 0a 1c 87 59 > bf 44 cc ac 3b ... > Apr 11 23:53:38 localhost pppd[31289]: Unsupported protoco

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-11 Thread Bartek
It is not enough to unload proprietary modules. As long as they have ever been loaded at all the kernel is tainted. You need to ensure that the proprietary modules never get loaded at all. I guess you probably already worked that out, just wanted to point it out just in case :-) Hopefully, this

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-10 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 10/04/07, Bartek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apr 8 21:47:22 localhost kernel: EIP:0060:[] > Tainted: P VLI Someone in private took me a noticed of a still tainted kernel. I didn't noticed that, I am sorry for that. I was sure that unloaded proprietary modules should resolve the p

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-10 Thread Bartek
Apr 8 21:47:22 localhost kernel: EIP:0060:[] Tainted: P VLI Someone in private took me a noticed of a still tainted kernel. I didn't noticed that, I am sorry for that. I was sure that unloaded proprietary modules should resolve the problem. My fault. I will try to reproduce the crash

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-08 Thread Bartek
Please reproduce and provide a new crash dump without the nvidia binary-only module loaded. Hi again, Here is a new crash dump (I also removed vmnet and vmmon properitary modules), this time I also included a lspci output: Apr 8 21:47:21 localhost pppd[2114]: rcvd [proto=0xfc3b] bc d4 80 eb 4

Re: kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-07 Thread David Miller
From: Bartek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:11:13 +0200 > I have problem with a Linux kernel oops. It mostly appears when I > download files using bittorrent or other large file. I have a phone > modem based Internet access using Home Internet Solution > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c in linux-2.6.21-rc6

2007-04-07 Thread Bartek
Hallo I have problem with a Linux kernel oops. It mostly appears when I download files using bittorrent or other large file. I have a phone modem based Internet access using Home Internet Solution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_internet_Solution). I use Debian testing, Linux vanilla version: