Re: 2.1.77:recvmsg bug:

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
06 Jan 1998 19:27:40 +0100


Martin Imrisek <modulus@interlog.com> writes:

> On Kernel 2.1.77 (SMP) I got:
>
>
> Jan 6 13:19:39 orpheus kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 0 seq 50F59601
> Jan 6 13:19:39 orpheus kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 0 seq 50F59601
> Jan 6 13:40:01 orpheus kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 0 seq 5BBF4E01
> Jan 6 13:40:01 orpheus kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 0 seq 5BBF4E01
>
> Hmm... anyone know what this means?

Something messed up the receive queue of a TCP socket. Could be
either memory problems or a TCP/networking bug. It's hard to investigate
without a tcpdump or some reproducible case though. It could be a SMP
Interrupt problem, but I unfortunately have no SMP machine to check this.

-A.