From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964953AbWGESEd (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:04:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964952AbWGESEc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:04:32 -0400 Received: from smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.207]:44418 "HELO smtp108.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964953AbWGESEc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:04:32 -0400 From: David Brownell To: "Miles Lane" Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- netconsole failed to send full trace Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:04:29 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607051104.29916.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 05 July 2006 9:39 am, Miles Lane wrote: > On 7/4/06, Miles Lane wrote: > > On 7/4/06, David Brownell wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 10:22 pm, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > > > > > So we have a use-after-free in tasklet_action(), as a consequence of > > > > > unplugging a USB ethernet adapter. > > > > > > > > So far, all the kernels have crashed (back to Ubuntu's 2.6.15). > > > > > > Erm, exactly which USB ethernet adapter? That would seem to be a > > > critical bit of info that's somehow been omitted... > > > > > > If it's the rtl8150 driver, that would be Petko's ... > > > > Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Compact Network Adapter (model USB100M). > > Yes, the rtl8150 driver loads when I insert the adapter. So you should contact the maintainer of that driver, yes? > Can someone tell me when the udev/hal support went into the kernel? Older versions of udev may not work with newer kernels, and vice versa; I've never taken HAL apart.