Re: [netfilter-core] Re: [lockup] 2.6.17-rc3: netfilter/sctp: lockup in sctp_new(), do_basic_checks()

Patrick McHardy
2006-05-02T15:55:34Z

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
>
>>running an "isic" stresstest on and against a testbox [which, amongst
>>other things, generates random incoming and outgoing packets] on
>>2.6.17-rc3 (and 2.6.17-rc3-mm1) over gigabit results in a reproducible
>>lockup, after 5-10 minutes of runtime:
>
>
> does this lockup the local machine you run the stresstest on or the
> remote machine you run the test against?

It would lock up any machine with the SCTP conntrack module loaded.
I'll prepare a patch for -stable as well.