Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- netconsole failed to send full trace

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 9:39 am, Miles Lane wrote:
> On 7/4/06, Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/4/06, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 10:22 pm, Miles Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > > > So we have a use-after-free in tasklet_action(), as a consequence of
> > > > > unplugging a USB ethernet adapter.
> > > >
> > > > So far, all the kernels have crashed (back to Ubuntu's 2.6.15).
> > >
> > > Erm, exactly which USB ethernet adapter?  That would seem to be a
> > > critical bit of info that's somehow been omitted...
> > >
> > > If it's the rtl8150 driver, that would be Petko's ...
> >
> > Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Compact Network Adapter (model USB100M).
> > Yes, the rtl8150 driver loads when I insert the adapter.

So you should contact the maintainer of that driver, yes?


> Can someone tell me when the udev/hal support went into the kernel?

Older versions of udev may not work with newer kernels, and vice versa;
I've never taken HAL apart.