Re:

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On 5/16/06, Chris Boot <bootc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just seen the following assertions pop out of one of my servers
> running 2.6.16.9 with grsecurity. I've searched the archives of LKML
> and netdev and I've only found posts relating to 2.6.9, after which
> some related bugs were fixed... It looks like these bugs are related
> to e1000, which is the driver I'm using. The system was running 24
> days before these appeared and it's still running absolutely fine.
>
> May 16 09:15:12 baldrick kernel: [6442250.504000] KERNEL: assertion (!
> sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (283)
> May 16 09:15:12 baldrick kernel: [6442250.513000] KERNEL: assertion (!
> sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (150)
>
> baldrick bootc # ethtool -k eth0
> Offload parameters for eth0:
> rx-checksumming: on
> tx-checksumming: on
> scatter-gather: on
> tcp segmentation offload: on

I guess just disable TSO or use latest kernel from git, it has a fix for this.

- Arnaldo
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