Re: stream.c

From: Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 09:26:34 EST


On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:04:31PM +0000, Chris Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The only Linux death recorded in Red Hat testing was 2.2.13 with tulip cards,
> > there it tripped the rx queue starve bug that happens conveniently to be
> > fixed in the 2.2.14 tulip driver
>
> Wasn't this a generic bug that affects a few of the drivers? If so which
> ones are still affected in 2.2.14?

        No, not *generic*.
        Some drivers have had NULL pointer problems when skb_alloc() fails
        due to memory pressure..

> Cheers
> Chris

/Matti Aarnio

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