kernel panic

[divyashree]

I have written a Linux kernel module (in Linux 2.4, Red Hat 9) which does the followings:

It takes srcIP, sourceport, destIP, destport and loadvalue as command line arguments. If configured load value is greater than 1, it creates different channels (i.e. No of UDP channels created equals to configured load value), assign different source port and destination port to different channels and send UDP datagram in different channels. Say for example the configured parameters are as follows srcIP=10.17.17.43 destIP= 10.17.17.44 sourceport=10000 destport= 20000 loadvalue=2. Then it creates two UDP different channels and transmits UDP packets (in every 20 milliseconds) to destination IP address (i.e., 10.17.17.44) with source port 10000, destination port 20000 in one channel and source port 10002, destination port 20000 in another channel.

When I configure to pass ?loadvalue=500? and run the module, I get the below kernel panic message in system log file (i.e., var/log/messages)

<0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing.

Running the same linux kernel module ,in 1000 loadvalue, I get this message,

eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 49937 vs. 49954

in text console.

I am unable to catch the root cause of these problems and how will I solve these ?

[tyman475]

Say for example the configured parameters are as follows srcIP=10.17.17.43 destIP= 10.17.17.44 sourceport=10000 destport= 20000 loadvalue=2. Then it creates two UDP different channels and transmits UDP packets (in every 20 milliseconds) to destination IP address (i.e., 10.17.17.44) with source port 10000, destination port 20000 in one channel and source port 10002, destination port 20000 in another channel.

I have been trying to send packets within kernel code, could I see your code of how you send these UDP datagrams?

Thanks,
tyman