Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP

Ben Hutchings
2010-05-04T11:32:05Z

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 09:00 +0530, Bhaskar Dutta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am observing intermittent TCP-MD5 checksum failures
> (CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG) on kernel 2.6.31 while talking to a BGP router.
>
> The problem is only seen in multi-core 64 bit machines.
> Is there any known bug in the per_cpu_ptr implementation (I am aware
> that the percpu allocator has been re-implemented in 2.6.33) that
> might cause a corruption in 64 bit SMP machines?
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

There was another recent report of incorrect MD5 signatures in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/159556>, but without any
response.

Ben.

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