Re: Bridging-bug with hacker-kernels on Alpha

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:48:23 +0100 (BST)


> My alpha is crashing when I start bridging. I have found the critical location
> in the v2.1.115-source:

Bridging doesnt work in 2.1.115. It might work in 2.1.115ac2

> In net/core/dev.c Line 820 you will find:
>
> cli();
> __skb_unlink(skb,&backlog); <----
> sti();

Thats broken, but for completely different reasons. Its disabling interrupts
when the skb_* stuff is now spinlocked.

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