Kernel Oops when receiving a lot of UDP packets while booting

LEROY Christophe christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Sat Dec 29 02:39:02 EST 2001


What is HHL2.0 ?
I'm using the official 2.4.16 kernel from kernel.org with the ppc ports
patch for 2.4.15.
I'm not using FEC but MC68160A (that is enet.c). But that's probably the
same problem.
Any idea how to solve the problem ?

C.Leroy

Peter Desnoyers a écrit :

> You're using HHL2.0?  There's a bug in fec.c where it will pass packets
> up the stack too early in initialization.  The tcp stack doesn't take
> too kindly to this, as a number of data structures which are assumed to
> exist by the code are actually null pointers at this point in time...
>
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