Re: [crash] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1328!

[David Miller]

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:44:14 +0200

> 
> * David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > > Maybe the network drivers are few enough that it will get fixed, or
> > > maybe the WARN_ON_ONCE() will just be removed and the rule not
> > > reinforced.
> > > 
> > > I personally suspect the latter, since it seems to happen with just
> > > about _any_ random network driver, including the common and
> > > well-maintained ones (ie the Gods only help us for the truly
> > > odd/random cases)
> > 
> > Yes, we'll see how this plays out.
> > 
> > Ian Schram just posted a patch for the NULL pointer derfer in wireless 
> > Ingo reported, so we'll see if that bug will be fixed now as well.
> 
> Yes, the fix from Ian below solved the CONFIG_MAC80211_HWSIM=y crash i 
> was getting. I have no other pending issues other than a few low-prio 
> ne2000 build failures.
> 
> Thanks guys,

Thanks everyone, applied.
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