Ernst Herzberg wrote:
>>This patch should fix it. Please test it and report if it helps.
> 
> 
> oernie:~ # uname -a ; uptime
> Linux oernie 2.6.16-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Mon Feb 20 22:07:34 CET 2006 i686 Intel(R) 
> Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>  02:06:00 up  3:53,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.15, 0.10
> 
> No oops so far. Serial console still connected, will report if this or a 
> similar problem occurs again.

Thanks for testing. Dave, please take this patch instead, it avoids
having to guess whether a packet originates from bridging in IP
netfilter by using DST_NOXFRM for bridge-netfilter's fake dst_entry.