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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k•org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de•ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in tun: bisected to  Limit amount of queued packets per device
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:34:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ws9c2zs7.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090409093817.GA5760@gondor.apana.org.au> (Herbert Xu's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:38:17 +0800")

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:52:01AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> 
>> with my kvm test scenario on s390 I get the following oops:
>> Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000400000000
>> Oops: 003b [#1] SMP
>> Modules linked in: kvm dm_multipath sunrpc qeth_l2 dm_mod qeth ccwgroup
>> CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.29-kvm-06607-ga317a1e-dirty #8
>> Process kuli (pid: 14827, task: 00000000b3df8138, ksp: 00000000b4703a98)
>> Krnl PSW : 0404e00180000000 0000000000171278 (__lock_acquire+0x3d4/0x191c)
>
> This is weird.  It looks like it's dying on the wake_up_interruptible_sync
> in tun_sock_write_space.  However, I can't see how that can cause this.

Any news on this?  It is still badly broken in 2.6.30-rc3.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09  7:52 Oops in tun: bisected to Limit amount of queued packets per device Christian Borntraeger
2009-04-09  9:38 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-09 10:39   ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-04-15 14:30     ` Andreas Schwab
2009-04-22 20:34   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-04-23  0:17     ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-23 10:08       ` Andreas Schwab

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