No locking problem.
In ./net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1299:printk(KERN_ERR "Lost timer or fin packet in tcp_fin.");
there is a "\n" missing.
>
> It gets much worse. Right after the 1st 2nd and 4th of these Lost timer
> messages, I got very nearly the full bootup messages all with exactly the
> same time stamp as the Lost timer message. The 3rd one only had a few
> lines from the bootup messages. The system hasn't rebooted though...it
> still says it's been up 4 days.
>
> This is with 2.0.4, compiled with gcc 2.6.3 -fno_strength_reduce, running
> all a.out with libc 4.7.6.
>
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