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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>
Cc: cagri coltekin <cagri@ripe.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, pekkas@netcore.fi
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:718
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:56:05 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610030955400.19772@d.namei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061003054935.GA23963@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:40:18AM +0200, cagri coltekin wrote:
> >
> > No. Bug is the first after boot:
> 
> OK, I think I've got the right bug this time.
> 
> [UDP6]: Fix flowi clobbering
> 
> The udp6_sendmsg function uses a shared buffer to store the
> flow without taking any locks.  This leads to races with SMP.
> This patch moves the flowi object onto the stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Nice catch.

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>



-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-03 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-27 14:23 PROBLEM: kernel BUG at net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:718 cagri coltekin
2006-08-28  0:16 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-28  0:49   ` cagri coltekin
2006-08-29  8:28     ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-31 15:12       ` cagri coltekin
2006-09-01  7:05         ` Herbert Xu
2006-09-01 16:22           ` cagri coltekin
2006-09-25 12:15             ` Herbert Xu
2006-09-26 11:21               ` cagri coltekin
2006-09-28  0:38                 ` Herbert Xu
2006-09-28  8:40                   ` cagri coltekin
2006-10-03  5:49                     ` Herbert Xu
2006-10-03  6:28                       ` Herbert Xu
2006-10-03 14:57                         ` cagri coltekin
2006-10-03 13:56                       ` James Morris [this message]

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