Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:23:02 +0100

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:39:09AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> It is hard to say what kind of bug to expect
> because at the same time other net_rx_action
> with the same vlan dev could take place on
> other processor and this inetdev_init could
> do more.

Sorry! inetdev_init couldn't do more because
of rtnl lock but anyway the rest should be valid:

> The main thing is the possibility of processing
> skb with not entirely open source dev which isn't
> expected (and checked) by receive functions.
> I think the easiest way to convince yourself is
> to add temporarily IFF_UP flag checking with
> dropping at the beginning of netif_receive_skb and
> __vlan_hwaccel_rx.

Jarek P.