From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jwboyer@gmail.com,
hch@infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, david@fromorbit.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:55:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2A87B0.6070900@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120201.162157.880976652659067010.davem@davemloft.net>
> Such a non-trivial backport has the danger of adding as many bugs as
> it is intended to fix.
>
> Therefore I will not be attempting to make this fix feasible for
> 3.0.x-stable, sorry.
>
> I seriously suggest that if you really are hitting this race (the
> exposure is very small, it only happens if you get redirects and
> redirects are not common for most hosts) that you move to a more
> recent kernel such as 3.1.x or 3.2.x, both of which have all the
> dependencies as well as the bug fix applied.
I fully understand that - i'm seeing this bug 2-3 times a week while
running a bunch of > 1000 servers.
I don't want to go to 3.1 or 3.2 as they're not long term.
So i'll try to make own backport. First steps done and seems to work
fine. Sadly i'm not a C programmer...
Greets
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-12-01 18:23 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 20:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 20:37 ` Josh Boyer
2011-12-01 21:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-02 6:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 6:17 ` David Miller
2011-12-02 7:19 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 17:34 ` David Miller
2011-12-02 18:53 ` Greg KH
2011-12-09 19:01 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-12-09 19:21 ` David Miller
2011-12-10 9:03 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 8:38 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-01-30 17:12 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 17:21 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:07 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:53 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 21:48 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 21:56 ` Greg KH
2012-01-31 8:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-01 21:21 ` David Miller
2012-02-02 12:55 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
2012-02-02 15:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-02 18:37 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-02-02 19:39 ` David Miller
2012-02-03 0:42 ` Greg KH
2012-02-03 6:48 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 7:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 8:09 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 11:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 15:53 ` Greg KH
2012-02-06 9:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06 9:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 12:47 ` TCP sacked_out and fackets_out inconsistency (Was: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c) Ilpo Järvinen
2012-02-08 8:26 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 9:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-08 9:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 9:02 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06 9:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 11:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 8:24 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 16:49 ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 6:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 20:19 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 1:26 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 6:44 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-09 22:13 ` David Miller
2012-02-10 7:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-10 7:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 18:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 20:41 ` David Miller
2012-02-03 15:52 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 9:45 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-12 12:57 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
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