On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:34:18AM -0800, David Stevens wrote: > I think you're correct-- looks like it needs: > > if (!skb) > return NULL; > > just before the skb_put(), since an allocation (and failure) > could occur in either the igmpv3_newpack() call or in add_grhead(). > Also, similar code in net/ipv6/mcast..c. > > Will you be submitting the patch?
One box here can semi-reliably reproduce oops which is attributed to these allocation failures. I'll tell if patch works or not soon. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000064 EIP is at add_grec+0x22b/0x372 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: f567cb20 edx: f567cb20 esi: e91ad540 edi: 00000001 ebp: 00000000 esp: c0787f54 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, veid: 0, ti=c0787000 task=c0670be0 task.ti=c073e000) Stack: c0787f80 00000001 00000005 e08a8920 c930a800 00000000 e08a892c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 e08a8920 e2000ea0 00000000 00000005 c05f1510 00000000 00000001 00000000 c0678580 c07fbb00 00000100 c05f13ac Call Trace: [<c05f1510>] igmp_ifc_timer_expire+0x164/0x1db [<c042cd17>] run_timer_softirq+0x116/0x18d [<c0427ea8>] __do_softirq+0x84/0x109 [<c0406234>] do_softirq+0x55/0xad ======================= Code: fa ff ff 89 c3 c7 44 24 1c 00 00 00 00 eb 04 85 ff 74 18 8b 4c 24 08 8d 44 24 2c 8b 54 24 0c 89 04 24 89 d8 e8 66 fc ff ff 89 c3 <83> 7b 64 00 8b bb a0 00 00 00 74 0b 0f 0b 66 b8 5a 03 b8 52 e9 EIP: [<c05f1265>] add_grec+0x22b/0x372 SS:ESP 0068:c0787f54 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html