Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 23:20:59 EST


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Richard Fuchs wrote:
> _correction_ to my previous mail, this does _not_ happen with the
> eepro100 driver. (sorry for the confusion, i got the kernel images mixed
> up with all the testing i've been doing.)
>
> could this affect the e1000 driver as well?

Yes.

> >Send the output of ethtool, please.

Doh. 'ethtool -k' is what's needed, sorry.

If it's reproduceable, try turning off rx/tx hardware checksumming:

ethtool -k eth0 rx off tx off

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