Subject: Re: Kernel crash in 2.6.0-test9-mm3

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:22:49 -0800

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:01:39 -0800
Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:

> It's one for the networking guys.
> 
> The mm kernels have a patch which detects when atomic_dec_and_test
> takes an atomic_t negative - it is assumed that this is a bug so
> a warning is generated.

It is a bug especially for the backtrace cases shown here, I'll take a
look.