Re: 2.4.23 hard lock, 100% reproducible.

Tim Timmerman
2003-12-09T06:30:18Z

>>>>> "Marcelo" == Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> writes:

Marcelo> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Tim Timmerman wrote:
>> Let me just add a me-too here.
>>
>> Haven't got the oops on my desk, here, but from what I could
>> see, the error occurred in find_appropriate_src, somewhere in
>> ipchains.
>>
>> Further, possibly irrelevant datapoint: ABIT BP6, ne2k-pci and
>> 3Com590 network cards. When the oops occurs, everything locks,
>> capslock and scrolllock are lit.
>>
>> I can reproduce the error by letting a second system ping the
>> first, on the internal network. Sometimes it doesn't even
>> complete a full boot.
>>
>> I'll try and capture more detail tonight.

Marcelo> Tim,

Marcelo> Please try the updated 2.4 BK tree (you can use -bk5,
Marcelo> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/snapshots/patch-2.4.23-bk5.bz2).

Marcelo> It contains a fix for a known bug in the netfilter which
Marcelo> might what you're hitting.

Marcello,

Thanks ! I can confirm that this seems to fix the bug: system
has been running the patched kernel for the past 12 hours, and
is stable, even under load.

TimT

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