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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: kernel@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk (Tim Haynes)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: ipv6 activity causing system hang in kernel 2.4.4
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 16:29:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15092.36065.805800.935258@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871yq3mllw.fsf@straw.pigsty.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <871yq3mllw.fsf@straw.pigsty.org.uk>


Try this patch, posted the other day.  I bet if you inspected,
you'd find OOPSes in your logs:

--- ../vanilla/linux/net/ipv6/ndisc.c	Thu Apr 26 22:17:26 2001
+++ net/ipv6/ndisc.c	Fri May  4 18:44:54 2001
@@ -394,7 +382,7 @@
 	int send_llinfo;
 
 	len = sizeof(struct icmp6hdr) + sizeof(struct in6_addr);
-	send_llinfo = dev->addr_len && ipv6_addr_type(saddr) != IPV6_ADDR_ANY;
+	send_llinfo = dev->addr_len && saddr && ipv6_addr_type(saddr) != IPV6_ADDR_ANY;
 	if (send_llinfo)
 		len += NDISC_OPT_SPACE(dev->addr_len);
 

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-05 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-05 23:17 Tim Haynes
2001-05-05 23:29 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-05-07 23:53 ` Lukasz Trabinski

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