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

From: Ray Lee
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 12:15:55 EST


On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Ilpo JÃrvinen
<ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

I'm sorry, I managed to miss it. I'll apply the patch and report back.

Thank you.
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