Re: do_IRQ: stack overflow: 872..

Crazy AMD K7 [off-list ref] writes:

Hi!
I have found a few days ago strange messages in /var/log/messages
More than 10 times there was do_IRQ: stack overflow: (nimber).... followed
with code. If need I can send all this data. I have run
ksymoops with only first 3 cases. Here is the first, the second and
the third are in attachment.
After that oopses my system continued to work.

It's not really an oops, just a warning that stack space got quiet tight.

The problem seems to be that the br netfilter code is nesting far too
deeply and recursing several times. Looks like a design bug to me,
it shouldn't do that.

uname uname -a
Linux linux 2.4.28 #2 ÷ÔÒ îÏÑ 30 15:43:35 MSK 2004 i686 unknown
gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)
I have applies ebtables_brnf patch (http://bridge.sf.net) and a

Don't do that then or contact the author to fix it. Unfortunately
the code is also in 2.6 mainline.

-Andi