On Oct 24, 2012, at 2:26 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:51:33PM -0500, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Ed L. Cashin,
>>>
>>> The patch 6fde53abc51d: "aoe: print warning regarding a common reason
>>> for dropped transmits" from Oct 23, 2012, leads to the following
>>> warning:
>>> drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:62 tx()
>>> error: 'skb' was already used up by dev_queue_xmit()
>>>
>>> 61) if (dev_queue_xmit(skb) == NET_XMIT_DROP && net_ratelimit())
>>> 62) pr_warn("aoe: packet could not be sent on %s. %s\n",
>>> 63) skb->dev ? skb->dev->name : "netif",
>>> 64) "consider increasing tx_queue_len");
>>>
>>> It's a use after free bug.
By the way, what tool is generating that warning?
Thanks.
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