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Badness in dst_release

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Subject: Badness in dst_release
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:46:29 -0500
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / åèèæ <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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After a week or more of uptime, the "Badness in dst_release" messages started again. Kernel 2.6.10-rc3-bk2. The first message is below.


Arnaldo and Yoshifuji should have already have access to this machine (although I just rebooted into -bk-latest)

IMO, if you want additional debugging code, add some non-intrusive checks in the upstream kernel. Since this problem doesn't appear for a while, additional checks would be useful.

Badness in dst_release at include/net/dst.h:149
 [<f8c1124d>] ip6_dst_check+0x64/0x6a [ipv6]
 [<f8c080da>] ip6_dst_lookup+0x1a7/0x1c1 [ipv6]
 [<f8c1a4e6>] udpv6_sendmsg+0x297/0x931 [ipv6]
 [<c03194ef>] udp_recvmsg+0x60/0x2e9
 [<c032086d>] inet_sendmsg+0x4d/0x59
 [<c02d33d8>] sock_sendmsg+0xe8/0x103
 [<c011bb37>] find_busiest_group+0xcf/0x2db
 [<c011bfb9>] load_balance_newidle+0x36/0xb4
 [<c01ec15c>] copy_from_user+0x42/0x6e
 [<c0133fd2>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x57
 [<c02d4cf6>] sys_sendmsg+0x189/0x1e6
 [<c0355e24>] schedule_timeout+0xbd/0xbf
 [<c0134a47>] unqueue_me+0x5a/0xa5
 [<c0133dda>] add_wait_queue+0x1a/0x46
 [<c0134be4>] futex_wait+0x152/0x170
 [<c014ecd4>] find_extend_vma+0x29/0x7e
 [<c011c7d5>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
 [<c01346e0>] futex_wake+0x74/0xc4
 [<c01ec15c>] copy_from_user+0x42/0x6e
 [<c02d5180>] sys_socketcall+0x236/0x254
 [<c0102f0d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71


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