Re: PROBLEM: 2.6test11 kernel panic on "head -1 /proc/net/tcp"

[lkml-031128]

OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> lkml-031128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> > After I added Ogawa's line, "head -1 /proc/net/tcp" stopped
> > freezing my machine but PPP failed to work.
> >
> > Also after adding Ogawa's line, PPP works fine (as it is now, as
> > I write this message) as long as I don't try "head -1 /proc/net/tcp"
> > after boot. If I'll try "head -1 /proc/net/tcp" now PPP will stop
> > working.
>
>
> Can you reproduce the fail of PPP? I couldn't reproduce it.
> What reason is the fail of PPP? (the "debug" option of pppd may be helpful)

Sorry. I just tried:

1. From a multi-user mode, after an uptime of 5 days (test11 with your
fix).
2. killed the ppp daemon (/etc/init.d/ppp stop). Made sure the ppp0
interface is down.
3. did "head -1 /proc/net/tcp" and "cat /proc/net/tcp". Passed fine.
4. re-startted ppp daemon.
5. System is fine. No kernel errors. PPP works flowlessly.

So I think my linking of PPP to the fix was wrong. Maybe the PPP failure
was unrelated to this.

> Of course, the following message is easy reproducible. But it's
> debugging message, not the real problem. And probably it's unrelated
> to the fail of PPP.
>
>
> > > > > Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:121
> > > > > Call Trace:
> > > > > [<c011df25>] local_bh_enable+0x85/0x90
> > > > > [<c02315e2>] ppp_async_push+0xa2/0x180
> > > > > [<c0230efd>] ppp_asynctty_wakeup+0x2d/0x60
> > > > > [<c0202638>] pty_unthrottle+0x58/0x60
> > > > > [<c01ff0fd>] check_unthrottle+0x3d/0x40
> > > > > [<c01ff1a3>] n_tty_flush_buffer+0x13/0x60
> > > > > [<c0202a47>] pty_flush_buffer+0x67/0x70
> > > > > [<c01fba41>] do_tty_hangup+0x3f1/0x460


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