From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pasi Valminen <okun@niksula.hut.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remotely triggered kernel panic on PPPoE + IPv6 enabled linux boxes
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:05:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727120529.456d8aeb.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407271720390.4851@kekkonen.cs.hut.fi>
(Somebody has been editing email headers again. Please do reply-to-all
when working on the kernel).
Pasi Valminen <okun@niksula.hut.fi> wrote:
>
> > I can trigger a kernel panic from a remote host using tracepath6.
> > First I connect to the internet using pppoe.
> PPPoE is not needed to crash the kernel. Plain vanilla 2.6.7 will crash
> just fine without it, seems like bringing up an ipv6 tunnel is enough.
> Then just
>
> $ tracepath6 <your tunnel ipv6 endpoint>
These problems were allegedly fixed post-2.6.7. Please retest using the
latest kernel from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-27 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-27 14:38 Pasi Valminen
2004-07-27 18:21 ` Remotely triggered kernel panic on IPv6 enabled linux boxes (no more PPPoE) pp
2004-07-27 19:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-28 18:08 ` Remotely triggered kernel panic on PPPoE + IPv6 enabled linux boxes Pasi Valminen
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2004-07-21 18:03 Pasi Valminen
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