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

To: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:22:10 -0800
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20041129211855.GC17540@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:18:57 +1100
Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 (180)
> 
> Note that this test was run using the send-to-self patch.

Try to reproduce without that patch installed.

If there is any mixup of SKB handling by any element in the
path the packet travels, you're screw up all the TCP
accounting knobs on the socket and easily trigger messages
like the above.

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