Re: [37/50] Fix inet_diag OOPS.

Patrick McHardy
2007-09-25T04:12:41Z

Dan Merillat wrote:
> On 9/24/07, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
>>netlink_run_queue() doesn't handle multiple processes processing the
>>queue concurrently. Serialize queue processing in inet_diag to fix
>>a oops in netlink_rcv_skb caused by netlink_run_queue passing a
>>NULL for the skb.
>
>
> I just got this one on 2.6.23-RC1, looks the same to me but posting
> the oops anyway to doublecheck.
>
> [1015205.245269] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff804eb6a5>] [<ffffffff804eb6a5>] netlink_run_queue+0xb2/0x104
> ...
> [1015205.245315] Call Trace:
> [1015205.245323] [<ffffffff8819a024>] :inet_diag:inet_diag_rcv+0x24/0x2f

Yes, this is the same oops. Its fixed in the current -rc.