Networkl problems with lastest kernel....

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jul 22 03:16:50 EST 2008


From: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan at pikatech.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:05:36 -0400

> But I have attached the new OOPS anyway.

The same problem is still there, this driver will
unfortunately require quite a bit more surgery.

You can instead add the following patch, it will
warn instead of BUG on you, and try to continue.

>From 867d79fb9a4d5929ad8335c896fcfe11c3b2ef14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:54:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net: In __netif_schedule() use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7e2d527..cbc34c0 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1327,7 +1327,8 @@ static void dev_queue_xmit_nit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
 void __netif_schedule(struct Qdisc *q)
 {
-	BUG_ON(q == &noop_qdisc);
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(q == &noop_qdisc))
+		return;
 
 	if (!test_and_set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_SCHED, &q->state)) {
 		struct softnet_data *sd;
-- 
1.5.6.4.433.g09651




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