Bug 60264

Summary:	gentoo-sources driver for RTL8139 (r8169.c) freezes system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	norbert kamenicky <noro>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description norbert kamenicky 2004-08-13 13:17:06 UTC

I noticed random machine freezes during big uploads using scp.
Because scp on localhost worked properly, I made "flood" ping test
from remote machine ... gentoo got freezed in few minutes.

Kernel gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r*
platform P4, x86 stable
RTL8169 onboard, driver compiled as module

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
On remote machine run "flood" ping similar to this:

   ping -f -s1500 -p1234567890 ip-of-rtl8169-iface-on-gentoo

and let it run until gentoo freezes.


Actual Results:  
Gentoo with kernel 2.4.26-r8 and rtl8169 driver freezes in few minutes.

Expected Results:  
Normal ping answer.

google fed with "r8169 freeze" shows a lot of links related
to this problem

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-13 13:25:54 UTC

*** Bug 60266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-13 13:31:57 UTC

Could you please try vanilla-sources and see if you can reproduce the same issue?

Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-13 13:32:30 UTC

Sidenote: 2.4.27 may have a fix for this, so can you see if you get this with 2.4.26 please?

Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-05 16:20:40 UTC

Please test with newer kernel (as requested above) and reopen if the issue still exists.