Re: Starfire (Adaptec) kernel 2.6.13+ panics on AMD64 NFS server

From: Hendrik Visage
Date: Sat Oct 01 2005 - 14:25:42 EST


On 10/1/05, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You must never call skb_checksum_help unless the packet is meant to
> be checksummed by the hardware. So starfire is the guilty party here.
>
> This patch makes it do the check and also check for errors from
> skb_checksum_help.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanx Herbert,
at least on 2.6.14_rc2 the patch appears to work for my stress test :)

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Hendrik Visage
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