Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re:Linux 2.6.29)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 10:40:23 EST



* Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:02:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > If the box hung within 15 minutes, the kernel was deemed bad. Using
> > that method i arrived to this upstream networking fix which was
> > merged yesterday:
> >
> > | 303c6a0251852ecbdc5c15e466dcaff5971f7517 is first bad commit
> > | commit 303c6a0251852ecbdc5c15e466dcaff5971f7517
> > | Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > | Date: Tue Mar 17 13:11:29 2009 -0700
> > |
> > | gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash
>
> This commit breaks nfsroot booting on i.MX27 and other ARM boxes
> with different network cards here in a reproducable way.

Can you confirm that Herbert's fix (see it below) solves the
problem?

Ingo

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