Avoid submitting patches to a vcc which is being closed. Things go badly wrong when the ->pop method gets later called after everything's been torn down. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:36 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > Nathan, does this help? I think that's necessary, but not sufficient. You'll want something like this too... I can now kill br2684ctl while there's a flood of outgoing packets, and get a handful of the printks that I had in here until a few seconds ago when I edited it out of the patch in my mail client... and no more panic. I do also now have Krzysztof's patch 1/7 (detach protocol before closing vcc) but I don't think it actually matters any more. --- a/net/atm/br2684.c~ 2012-11-23 23:14:29.000000000 +0000 +++ b/net/atm/br2684.c 2012-11-27 23:09:18.502403881 +0000 @@ -249,6 +249,12 @@ static int br2684_xmit_vcc(struct sk_buf skb_debug(skb); ATM_SKB(skb)->vcc = atmvcc = brvcc->atmvcc; + if (test_bit(ATM_VF_RELEASED, &atmvcc->flags) + || test_bit(ATM_VF_CLOSE, &atmvcc->flags) + || !test_bit(ATM_VF_READY, &atmvcc->flags)) { + dev_kfree_skb(skb); + return 0; + } pr_debug("atm_skb(%p)->vcc(%p)->dev(%p)\n", skb, atmvcc, atmvcc->dev); atomic_add(skb->truesize, &sk_atm(atmvcc)->sk_wmem_alloc); ATM_SKB(skb)->atm_options = atmvcc->atm_options; -- dwmw2