Re: Question on Kernel panic: skput:over

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sun, 3 May 1998 09:32:47 +0200 (MET DST)

David Edwards wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I had an incident last night where my web server died. The only clue I
> have to what happened is this one entry in my syslog.
>
> May 2 00:34:18 web kernel: Kernel panic: skput:over: 00147648:3961
>
> I was hoping someone on this list might be able to help me interpret this
> so I can figure out what the heck happened. This web server has been rock
> solid for the last 3 months. I use RH 5.0 with 2.0.32 on a PPro 180, 96M
> ram, 3c509, buslogic 958.
>
> Please reply to me directly since I am not subscribed to this list.
> Thank you for your help,
> David Edwards
> gecker@oakweb.com

The message means that someone tried to stuff n+1 bytes into an n-byte
buffer (skbuf). The culprit is most likely a network device driver
(the 3c509 driver in your case), and might be triggered by something
that your communications partners do on the network (but when I
encountered this it was MY fault as the driverwriter, and not of the
other machine).

Roger.

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