Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 OOPS in forcedeth?

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:05:19 -0400

[email-masked] wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/
>>
> On this machine (Athlon 64 X2 4600, 4 GiB memory, lots of disks),
> 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 runs fine. 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 reproducably dies within seconds of starting
> a rsync session on another PC against this machine.
> 
> NULL pointer dereference
> code:	nv_napi_poll+0x108
> trace:	net_rx_action+0xab
> 	__do_softirq+0x74
> 	call_softirq+0x1c
> 	do_softirq+0x3d
> 	irq_exit+0x85
> 	do_IRQ+0x85
> 	ret_from_intr+0x0

(added netdev to CC)

I'm guessing that this is net-2.6.24.git's NAPI update.

	Jeff