Re: Possible netfilter-related memory corruption in 2.6.37

Eric Dumazet
2011-02-14T15:11:23Z

Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 16:58 +0200, Avi Kivity a écrit :
> We see severe memory corruption in kvm while used in conjunction with
> bridge/netfilter. Enabling slab debugging points the finger at a
> netfilter chain invoked from the bridge code.
>
> Can someone take a look?
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27052
>

CC netdev

Does a revert of commit ca44ac386181ba7 help a bit ?

(net: don't reallocate skb->head unless the current one hasn't the
needed extra size or is shared)