New: e1000 network driver causes kernel oops

Bugme-new Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Jun 2, 2011 1 message not in the archive

Subsystems (2)

Networking Network drivers

lore

Share & tools

lore

Andrew Morton

author

2011-06-02 19:32 UTC #1 lore raw

In reply to a message not in the archive

(switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface).

Quoted 18 lines · On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:20:08 GMT [email protected] wrote:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36562

           Summary: e1000 network driver causes kernel oops
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc14.x86_64
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Fedora
            Status: NEW
          Severity: high
          Priority: P1
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]
        Regression: No

Quoted 5 lines

After running for about 12-48 hours we typically have several servers which kernel oops on the e1000
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/e65c4a4b220096cabfa8746195898c1c5520b65cdde108921f027a309c179f6a6g.jpg

It crashed deep down in TCP. That may not be e1000-related.

I think we still have two drivers: e1000 and e1000e. You're using e1000e.