From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.5.36 - "Dead loop on virtual device lo, fix it urgently!"
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:51:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209182237.35054.m.c.p@gmx.net> (raw)
Hi there,
from: net/core/dev.c
....
} else {
/* Recursion is detected! It is possible,
* unfortunately */
if (net_ratelimit())
printk(KERN_DEBUG "Dead loop on virtual device "
"%s, fix it urgently!\n", dev->name);
}
....
hehe, "It is possible, unfortunately" and I hit it :)
just having lo, eth0 and eth0:2, nothing special, no tunnels etc. :)
appears, reproducable, with "apt-get update" or any other kind of some
high network load. NIC is an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 card using the
"original Becker driver".
--
Kind regards
Marc-Christian Petersen
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