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Re: [Fwd: Re: possible bug x86 2.4.2 SMP in IP receive stack]

To: Bob Felderman <feldy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: possible bug x86 2.4.2 SMP in IP receive stack]
From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:50:11 +0000
Cc: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200103052331.PAA26583@myri.com>
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Bob Felderman wrote:
> 
> If I only use a single CPU with the same kernel, I do NOT have
> any problems.

Oh.

Your driver doesn't appear to have any SMP locking.  The
same skb can be fed to the network stack twice.

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