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From: Jaco Kroon <jaco@kroon.co.za>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] infinite recursion in netlink
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:21:50 +0200
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:38:56PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Reply to NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP messages were misrouted back to kernel,
>> which resulted in infinite recursion and stack overflow.
>>
>> The bug is present in all kernel versions since the feature appeared.
> 
> Any hint on when this feature appeared so that we can notify the distros
> for older releases?
> 
> thanks,

2.6.13 if I'm not mistaken, confirmed on debian testing by Simeon 
Miteff.  From man 7 netlink:

NETLINK_W1 and NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP appeared in Linux 2.6.13.

Jaco