Bug 21662

Summary:	2.6.35->2.6.36 regression, vanilla kernel panic, ppp or hrtimers crashing
Product:	Networking	Reporter:	Maciej Rutecki (maciej.rutecki)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	maciej.rutecki, nuclearcat, rjw
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.36	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	16444

Description Maciej Rutecki 2010-11-01 19:45:37 UTC

Subject    : 2.6.35->2.6.36 regression, vanilla kernel panic, ppp or hrtimers crashing
Submitter  : Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com>
Date       : 2010-10-25 9:22
Message-ID : 201010251222.37191.nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128799855826011&w=2

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.35. Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Comment 1 Denys Fedoryshchenko 2010-12-05 20:36:34 UTC

Here is suggested patch and problematic commit (55c95e738da85)
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129138181231513&w=2

Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2010-12-19 13:39:38 UTC

Fixed by commit 2a27a03 pppoe.c: Fix kernel panic caused by __pppoe_xmit .