From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760026AbZEKXhP (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 19:37:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758672AbZEKXg5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 19:36:57 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58013 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755942AbZEKXg4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 19:36:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090511.163652.156749735.davem@davemloft.net> To: Luc.Goria@adept-telecom.fr Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27.2] datagram handling routines : mapping/unmapping paged data in soft IRQ From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <54466B0E862D654998371DCA86B6FE2F4B6D47@adept-srv2.adept.local> References: <54466B0E862D654998371DCA86B6FE2F4B6D47@adept-srv2.adept.local> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Luc Goria" Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:32:21 +0200 > > Kernel crashes when a network module tries to copy a datagram to iovec in soft IRQ with paged data. > The problem is that kunmap function can't be called in IRQ. > All calls to kmap/kunmap fonctions are replaced by calls to kmap_skb_frag/kunmap_skb_frag when paged data are involved. > > <> > Signed-off-by: Luc GORIA What network module does this? You're not supposed to.