Re: kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:32:42PM +0000, Shaun Reitan wrote:
> OK, finally got a full dump from the serial console!  Here is it!

This was fixed about a month ago.  Here is the patch that did it.

Perhaps it's time to include this in 2.6.11.*?

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# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
#   2005/03/14 21:22:31-08:00 bdschuym@pandora.be 
#   [EBTABLES]: Fix smp race.
#   
#   The patch below fixes an smp race that happens on such systems under
#   heavy load.
#   This bug was reported and solved by Steve Herrell
#   <steve_herrell@yahoo.ca>
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
#   Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
# 
# net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
#   2005/03/14 21:22:13-08:00 bdschuym@pandora.be +2 -1
#   [EBTABLES]: Fix smp race.
#   
#   The patch below fixes an smp race that happens on such systems under
#   heavy load.
#   This bug was reported and solved by Steve Herrell
#   <steve_herrell@yahoo.ca>
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
#   Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
# 
diff -Nru a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c	2005-04-18 15:59:25 +10:00
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c	2005-04-18 15:59:25 +10:00
@@ -179,9 +179,10 @@
 	struct ebt_chainstack *cs;
 	struct ebt_entries *chaininfo;
 	char *base;
-	struct ebt_table_info *private = table->private;
+	struct ebt_table_info *private;
 
 	read_lock_bh(&table->lock);
+	private = table->private;
 	cb_base = COUNTER_BASE(private->counters, private->nentries,
 	   smp_processor_id());
 	if (private->chainstack)