Re: assertion (packets <= tp->packets_out) failed

From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 03:45:25 EST


On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Ray Lee wrote:

> Wireless below is b43, wired interface (tg3) was disconnected. I run
> openvpn which uses a tun interface and regularly sends a heartbeat
> even when not in use. The trace appeared twice.
>
> Likely unrelated but reporting just for completeness: about fifteen
> minutes after this the system oopsed when I told my wireless base
> station to switch from mixed B/G to just B. I'll be taking that up
> separately with the bcm43xx list.
>
> Mar 1 11:06:37 phoenix kernel: [35251.208275] eth1: switched to short
> barker preamble (BSSID=00:16:01:d1:44:3e)
> Mar 1 11:06:37 phoenix kernel: [35251.320282] eth1: switched to long
> barker preamble (BSSID=00:16:01:d1:44:3e)
> Mar 1 11:08:28 phoenix kernel: [35274.396163] KERNEL: assertion
> (packets <= tp->packets_out) failed at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c (2139)
> Mar 1 11:08:29 phoenix kernel: [35274.406126] ------------[ cut here
> ]------------
> Mar 1 11:08:29 phoenix kernel: [35274.406132] WARNING: at
> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2506 tcp_ack+0xe3f/0x1b12()

Do people ever look into archives before posting? I'm a bit tired of point
to the debug patch:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120418703023153&w=2

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