PPP: System crashed on skb_under_panic error
Issue
- RHEL 5 machine crashed a short while ago. Observed this error in /var/log/messages at time of crash:
Apr 3 11:15:36 hosta kernel: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff883282c7 len:110 put:56 head:ffff8103a38d0000 data:ffff8103a38c
fff0 tail:ffff8103a38d005e end:ffff8103a38d2e00 dev:eth3
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- 2.6.18-406.el5
- ppp_async module
- pppd
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 without the patch in the "Resolution" section.
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