From: Adam Richter <adam_richter2004@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:24:47 -0700 (PDT)

quoted text
> 	When I can find some time, I plan to try to narrow the problem
> with git bisect, but that may not be today.

We're pretty sure we know exactly what commit causes this.

Can you try playing with a patch Jarek P. just posted in
the thread where this bug is being discussed?  (Subject:
Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash"):

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index e3fe5c7..cf53c24 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2589,7 +2589,11 @@ static int process_backlog(struct napi_struct *napi, int quota)
 		skb = __skb_dequeue(&queue->input_pkt_queue);
 		if (!skb) {
 			local_irq_enable();
-			napi_complete(napi);
+			napi_gro_flush(napi);
+			local_irq_disable();
+			if (skb_queue_empty(&queue->input_pkt_queue))
+				__napi_complete(napi);
+			local_irq_enable();
 			goto out;
 		}
 		local_irq_enable();

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