Subject: Re: KERNEL: assertion (!atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc)) failed at net/netlink/af_netlink.c (126)

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:38:11 +0200

* Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > this was on a box that is DSL connected and thus gets lots of trash 
> > packets over the wire. It is running -RT ontop of 2.6.12-rc1, and got 
> > this message after 2 days of uptime.
> 
> This assertion can only be caused by netlink applications.  What 
> netlink applications do you use on this machine? Examples include 
> ip(8), the ULOG target of iptables, vrrpd, etc.

no vrrpd on this box. There's ipsec and wshaper on the box - both use 
netlink? No ULOG target AFAIK (it's a pretty much stock FC4 install).

	Ingo