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From: Athanasius <link@miggy.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	link@miggy.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:38:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831123825.GW22067@miggy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708311258520.8423@x2>

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:05:04PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Seems to be a bug introduced by the netlink_run_queue conversion,
> since there is no locking and netlink_run_queue doesn't check
> for NULL results from skb_dequeue, it might pass NULL to
> netlink_rcv_skb, which crashes.
> 
> Does this patch help?

  I'll compile up a new kernel, likely 2.6.22.6, plus this patch, and
reboot to it tonight.  I still don't know *exactly* how to trigger the
bug on demand though, it's not reocurred since I posted the bug report
(but had happened about a week before as well).

thanks,

-Ath
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-8961-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2007-08-31  1:08 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code Andrew Morton
2007-08-31 11:05   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-08-31 12:38     ` Athanasius [this message]
2007-09-01 16:38       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-09-01 17:39         ` Athanasius
2007-09-01 22:53           ` Patrick McHardy
2007-09-02  4:04         ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-02 10:56           ` Patrick McHardy

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