Strange error / warning message shortly after bootup

[David Vernon]

Eric wrote:
> 
> (Re-posted ... with some new information ... because I previously posted
> it as a "reply" to the wrong thread, sorry...)
> 
> Shortly after booting up, I get (on the root console and in dmesg):
> 
> BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Tainted: P      )
>   [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+0x45/0x92
>   [<c06002bd>] cond_resched_softirq+0x2c/0x42
>   [<c059adf3>] release_sock+0x4f/0x9d
>   [<c05c670d>] tcp_sendmsg+0x90b/0x9f9
>   [<c0480872>] core_sys_select+0x1ae/0x2f3
>   [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45
>   [<c0598731>] sock_aio_write+0xf6/0x102
>   [<c05b44be>] netlink_insert+0x106/0x110
>   [<c04754ee>] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x10a
>   [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
>   [<c0475d47>] vfs_write+0xbc/0x154
>   [<c0476342>] sys_write+0x41/0x67
>   [<c0404f70>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>   =======================
> 
> Any idea what that's all about?

No idea.

> I get it once and then everything seems fine.

I seem to be getting these when I am running things through ssh. For
example rsync or 'tar -cf - ./foo |ssh bar at box1 "cat >somefile"'. So far
I have been seeing this on the destination system (box1 in the example
above).