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From: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ipv6_select_ident
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:03:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF2117F.6000803@bootc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324484956.2301.24.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>

On 21/12/2011 16:29, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 21 décembre 2011 à 15:52 +0000, Chris Boot a écrit :
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm working on getting a 2-node VM cluster up and running, with DRBD and
>> Corosync/Pacemaker, running KVM VMs.
>>
>> I can trigger a kernel panic in either _host_ system when running an
>> rsync on a _guest_ VM. The rsync is simply SSH over IPv6 from a remote
>> mail store (containing maildirs) to a local filesystem. I'm basically
>> working on migrating a physical IMAP server to one inside a VM.
>>
>> After a few seconds of fairly heavy IPv6 traffic, I get the panic below.
>> You'll notice the panic refers to vhost_net, but I tried without that
>> and the kernel panics at exactly the same call point.
>>
>> Panic:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Any insight will be gratefully received.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
> Is it a debian kernel ?
>
> You need : https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/11/291

Eric,

Aha, that sounds like exactly the culprit, thanks. However I can't find 
any reference to it in the 3.1 to 3.1.5 changelogs. Is it fixed in any 
of those kernels or would I have to attempt to forward-port the fix myself?

Cheers,
Chris

-- 
Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4EF200BB.7000209@bootc.net>
2011-12-21 16:29 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ipv6_select_ident Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 17:03   ` Chris Boot [this message]
2011-12-21 17:36     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 18:00       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 20:05         ` Chris Boot
2011-12-21 20:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 20:52             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 21:58               ` Chris Boot
2011-12-21 23:12                 ` Chris Boot
2011-12-22  4:37                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22  6:00                     ` [PATCH] bridge: provide a mtu() method for fake_dst_ops Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22  7:05                       ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22  6:38                     ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in ipv6_select_ident Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22  7:51                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22  7:58                         ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22  8:05                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 10:01                             ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-22 10:04                     ` Chris Boot
2011-12-22 14:15                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 15:54                         ` Chris Boot
2011-12-22 17:41                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-22 18:29                             ` David Miller
2011-12-23  3:38                         ` David Miller

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