Re: PPP is not SMP safe in 2.2.X, Oops

From: Oleg Drokin (green@ccssu.crimea.ua)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 04:01:54 EST


Hello!

> Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > It seems PPP is not SMP safe in 2.2.X
> Hmmm... looks like you're right. Someone is stepping on ppp->tpkt in between
> the time ppp_tty_push called ppp_async_encode and it was done with the packet.
Sure, I know. I getting these crashes often.

> ppp_tty_flush_output - seems unlikely. I don't know if its actually SMP
> safe, but you're probably not getting flushes
> ppp_async_release - could be... does this happen perchance when a connection
> is being closed?
How can I know?

> another ppp_tty_push - uh, I really hope ppp->tty_pushing isn't the only
> thing serializing access here.. that doesn't look healthy to me.
I think that exactly this happens, we have 2 ppp_tty_push running, one after
one.

Bye,
    Oleg

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