Bug#422675: sis900: tons of corrupted packets are reported

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:10:41PM +0200, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7
> Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> While tracking down some rsync trouble I found this error/waring
> message appears 4-5 times every second:
> 
> May  6 06:28:28 vargas kernel: eth0: Corrupted packet received, buffer status = 0x908401b8/440.
> May  6 06:28:28 vargas kernel: eth0: Corrupted packet received, buffer status = 0x90880187/391.
> May  6 06:28:28 vargas kernel: eth0: Corrupted packet received, buffer status = 0x90840143/323.
> May  6 06:28:28 vargas kernel: eth0: Corrupted packet received, buffer status = 0x90880134/308.
> May  6 06:28:28 vargas kernel: eth0: Corrupted packet received, buffer status = 0x9084019e/414.
> 
> As you see the numbers at the end vary, but I see no close relation to
> the amount of traffic trough the interface. If it is related to my
> network problem isn't sure yet, but it creates 18MB of logfile a day.
> 
> I had no such messages with it previous kernel version (before the
> latest security update).

Is still issue still reproducible with the latest 2.6.18 kernel?
If so, could you also try to reproduce this bug with the 2.6.24 based
kernel added in 4.0r4?

If the error was introduced in 12etch1, do you run (or rather did you,
since the bug is fairly old) IPv6?

Cheers,
        Moritz