From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: vherva@niksula.hut.fi
Cc: ross@willow.seitz.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:44:28 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030317.224428.35337806.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030318064258.GI159052@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:42:58 +0200
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:55:07PM -0800, you [David S. Miller] wrote:
> Try searching harder, it's a kernel bug which is fixed in
> current 2.4.21 prepatches.
For reference, the patch is at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104399842612703&w=2
BTW: How severe is the bug? Is it a harmless message, or can it do bad
things?
We believe that someone could take advantage of it to make a server
get stuck. So I'd say it's serious.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-18 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 21:44 Ross Vandegrift
2003-03-18 0:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-18 6:42 ` Ville Herva
2003-03-18 6:44 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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