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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] OOPS with nf_conntrack_ipv6, probably fragmented UDPv6
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:50:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A38173.9090305@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A37F5F.2030501@birkenwald.de>

Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>> I've hit another kernel oops with 2.6.20-rc3 on i386 platform. It is
>>> reproducible, as soon as I load nf_conntrack_ipv6 and try to send
>>> something large (scp or so) inside an OpenVPN tunnel on my client
>>> (patched with UDPv6 transport) the router (another box) OOPSes.
>>>
>>> tcpdump suggests the problem appears as soon as my client sends
>>> fragmented UDPv6 packets towards the destination. It does not happen
>>> when nf_conntrack_ipv6 is not loaded. This is the OOPS as dumped from
>>> the serial console:
>>
>> Does this patch help?
> 
> 
> Yes, seems to be working fine.

Thanks, I'll send it upstream tonight.

> Can you tell since when this bug is in the kernel?

The real bug is in nf_conntrack and probably has been there since
the beginning (which I think is about 1.5 years ago). It blows up
in combination with the GSO code, which I believe was added in
2.6.18-rc, but it might have caused troubles somewhere else before.


      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-09 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-04 16:58 [Bug] OOPS with nf_conntrack_ipv6, probably fragmented UDPv6 Bernhard Schmidt
2007-01-04 22:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11 13:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-09 11:41   ` Bernhard Schmidt
2007-01-09 11:50     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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