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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc: kaber@trash.net, matthias.andree@gmx.de,
	netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] Fix ip_conntrack_amanda data corruption bug that breaks amanda dumps
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:58:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041104165847.2f178d81.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041105010427.GA2770@merlin.emma.line.org>

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:04:27 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Nov 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > His patch isn't correct, even making a temporary change to
> > a shared SKB is illegal.
> 
> So the original ip_conntrack_amanda was already illegal. If only such
> nonsense caused heavy kernel logging (let it oops or GPF or whatver),
> that's a much quicker way to pinpoint the bug than run amanda with a
> special devnull configuration some dozen times.

The original ip_conntrack_amanda was correct before
my skb_header_pointer() changes.  Patrick's patch, which
I'll of course apply, simply reverted those changes back
to the original code which uses the amanda_buffer for
the UDP control stream always.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-05  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-04 12:15 [BK PATCH] Fix ip_conntrack_amanda data corruption bug that breaks amanda dumps Matthias Andree
2004-11-04 18:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-04 20:45   ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-04 21:00     ` David S. Miller
2004-11-04 21:53       ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-04 23:50         ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-04 23:59           ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-04 23:17   ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-04 23:53     ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-05  0:06       ` David S. Miller
2004-11-05  0:40         ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-05  1:04         ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-05  0:58           ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-11-05 11:30             ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-05 20:23       ` Pablo Neira
2004-11-05 22:19         ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-06  1:53           ` Pablo Neira
2004-11-07 12:16           ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-07 16:39             ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-05 22:24         ` Henrik Nordstrom

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