Re: KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed

[Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com>]

On 2006-02-09, Boris B. Zhmurov <bb@kernelpanic.ru> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible for you to download 2.6.16-rc2 or similar and see if it
>> goes away?
>
> It'll be better, if I get only patch fixs that problem, not all 2.6.16-rc2.

I just got this same warning on a system running 2.6.14.5. It's been
up for 50 days, quite heavily loaded, and I've seen this only once. 
Should i be conserned ? Could someone tell me what it means ?

# uname -a
Linux mail 2.6.14.5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 27 14:39:55 CET 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# dmesg|grep KERNEL
KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279)
KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/ipv4/af_inet.c (148)
# ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp segmentation offload: on
# ethtool -k eth1
Offload parameters for eth1:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp segmentation offload: on


  -jf

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