From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mcclung@nebrwesleyan.edu
Subject: Re: [RFT] sky2 vs iptables
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:01:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450CBA9A.4040705@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060906141651.116aa758@localhost.localdomain>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:36:24 -0400
> Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> There's a strange sky2 bug on the Gentoo bugzilla:
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136508
>>
>> sky2 seems to work OK, but breaks as soon as the iptables ruleset is
>> loaded. Nothing can be pinged, etc.
>>
>> Can someone try and reproduce this? The iptables rule script has been
>> uploaded here:
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=95694&action=view
>>
>> The very last command in that file is the one which produces an error
>> and stops everything working:
>>
>> iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615
>>
>> Apparently a sky2 null deref has also been seen at this point, although
>> I don't have further details on that.
>
> It might be an artifact of the way sky2 was allocating receive buffers.
> Bridge-netfilter was assuming header space in the buffer, and would corrupt
> other memory, maybe iptables is assuming as well. This makes sky2
> use dev_alloc_skb that reserves space.
> -----------------------
> Subject: sky2: use dev_alloc_skb for receive buffers
Unfortunately the problem still exists with this patch. Any other ideas?
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-17 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 1:36 [RFT] sky2 vs iptables Daniel Drake
2006-09-06 21:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-17 3:01 ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2006-09-21 23:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-04 14:11 ` Daniel Drake
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