AX.25, bpq, and 2.1.8x

Jason Duerstock (jasond@cdc.net)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:42:10 -0500 (EST)


I've done some more fishing around trying to figure out why the ax.25 +
bpq code is hosed, and this is what I've come up with so far:

1) The original kernel oops is in __neigh_event_send in
net/core/neighbour.c. When the function tries to call the
neigh->ops->solicit() routine, the value for neigh->ops->solicit is NULL.

2) I put in some code to check if the aformentioned variable is null and
to 'return 1;' if it is. I'm having trouble determining where the values
are set up in the first place though.

3) After doing #2, the system pulls an Oops again, but this time it's in
schedule() and I get the message 'Scheduling in interrupt'. This traces
back to interruptible_sleep_on() which is called from wait_for_packet()
which is called from skb_recv_datagram().

This is about all the information I currently have, as scribbling down
crash dumps by hand is not a lot of fun, and I am unsure where to go
looking next to fix this. Any comments, pointers (non-NULL please) or
suggestions?

Jason

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