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Re: Failed assertion

To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Failed assertion
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:53:50 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Andrew Morton writes:
 > Could this be a driver problem?

 >             netif_rx(skb);
 ...
 >                 new_skb = skb;

This is illegal and broken and will never work.

Once you give an skb to netif_rx() it is not yours
to reference any longer.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx

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