From: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
greg@kroah.com, jwboyer@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, david@fromorbit.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:37:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2AD801.1010409@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328195055.2279.61.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>
Hi Greg,
Am 02.02.2012 16:04, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> Hmm, thats a problem, we need a stable 3.0 kernel for sure.
>
> Should distros handle this tricky problem themselves ?
>
> I tried to find a solution, but we had so many changes in this part of
> the code that its really hard.
>
> I see 3 ways :
>
> 1) Warn the world 3.0 is unfixable and should be avoided.
> Ask stable team to instead support 3.1 or 3.2
>
> 2) Disable redirects on 3.0
>
> 3) Maybe try to revert f39925dbde77
>
> (ipv4: Cache learned redirect information in inetpeer.)
>
> Unfortunately this was introduced in 2.6.39, and it seems trying to
> revert it on 3.0 tree is not trivial.
as the stable maintainer. What's your opinion?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-12-01 18:23 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 20:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 20:37 ` Josh Boyer
2011-12-01 21:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-02 6:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 6:17 ` David Miller
2011-12-02 7:19 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 17:34 ` David Miller
2011-12-02 18:53 ` Greg KH
2011-12-09 19:01 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-12-09 19:21 ` David Miller
2011-12-10 9:03 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 8:38 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-01-30 17:12 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 17:21 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:07 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:53 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 21:48 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 21:56 ` Greg KH
2012-01-31 8:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-01 21:21 ` David Miller
2012-02-02 12:55 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-02 15:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-02 18:37 ` Stefan Priebe [this message]
2012-02-02 19:39 ` David Miller
2012-02-03 0:42 ` Greg KH
2012-02-03 6:48 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 7:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 8:09 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 11:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 15:53 ` Greg KH
2012-02-06 9:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06 9:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 12:47 ` TCP sacked_out and fackets_out inconsistency (Was: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c) Ilpo Järvinen
2012-02-08 8:26 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 9:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-08 9:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 9:02 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06 9:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 11:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 8:24 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 16:49 ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 6:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 20:19 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 1:26 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 6:44 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-09 22:13 ` David Miller
2012-02-10 7:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-10 7:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 18:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 20:41 ` David Miller
2012-02-03 15:52 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 9:45 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-12 12:57 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
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