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* Re: ip_defrag is broken (was: Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback)
@ 2000-12-14 22:39 Bob_Tracy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Bob_Tracy @ 2000-12-14 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: davem, mhaque, ionut

Ion Badulescu wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:15:04 -0500, Mohammad A. Haque <mhaque@haque.net> wrote:
> > Were you connected to a network or receiving/sending anything?
> 
> ip_defrag is broken -- there is an obvious NULL pointer dereference
> in it, introduced in test12. It doesn't hit normally, because of
> path MTU discovery, but using NFS causes instant death.

...and then I wrote:
> This is consistent with the lockup I reported several hours ago.
> In the case of my "unstable" 2.4.0-test12 machine where "startx"
> worked fine for "root" but not for a normal user, the "root"
> account is local.  The normal user account home directories are
> NFS mounted :-(.

I tried the submitted patch for ip_fragment.c, and there's still
no joy on that one unstable machine in my sample set.  At this
point, I should probably go back through all the pre-12 patches
and see if the problem scope can be narrowed a bit.

-- 
Bob Tracy
rct@frus.com
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* Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback
@ 2000-12-14 12:15 Mohammad A. Haque
  2000-12-14 18:38 ` ip_defrag is broken (was: Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback) Ion Badulescu
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From: Mohammad A. Haque @ 2000-12-14 12:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dep; +Cc: linux-kernel

Were you connected to a network or receiving/sending anything?

dep wrote:
> 
> okay. got it here this morning, too. solid lock -- no dumping out of
> x, no changing terminals, no mouse, no keyboard.
> 
> k6-2-550 @ 500; 256mb memory, fic 503a mb with via chipset. kernel
> built with gcc-2.95-2 against glibc-2.2. nothing remarkable underway
> -- was composing a message in kmail, which i've done successfully
> multiple times since upgrading to test12.
> --
> dep

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2000-12-14 19:27   ` David S. Miller
2000-12-14 19:52     ` Ion Badulescu
2000-12-14 19:43       ` David S. Miller
2000-12-14 20:07         ` Ion Badulescu
2000-12-14 20:35           ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-14 20:23             ` David S. Miller
2000-12-14 21:25               ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-14 22:50                 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-14 23:58                   ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-15  8:52                   ` Jasper Spaans
2000-12-15  9:22                   ` Tom Leete
2000-12-15  2:25               ` Tom Leete
2000-12-15 13:12               ` Rusty Russell
2000-12-14 20:49   ` Bob_Tracy

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