From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:32:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:32:37 -0400 Received: from mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.1.226]:59662 "EHLO mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:32:26 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.2.13] memory leak in NFS if a sever goes away? In-Reply-To: <20010731232456.A13258@emma1.emma.line.org> From: Florian Weimer Date: 01 Aug 2001 12:32:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010731232456.A13258@emma1.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:24:56 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthias Andree writes: > > Are there some known issues with 2.2.13, for example, a memory leak in > > the NFS code which is triggered in this specific situation? > > There are known security threats in 2.2.x which have been fixed in > 2.2.16, and there have been VM fixes in a later version, and further > minor but numerable security fixes in 2.2.19. The system has already been installed from scratch, using a more recent kernel version. I agree that the kind of information I'm looking for is not crucial for running a current Linux kernel, but we were specifically asked to explain what has happened to the machine (and we do have satisfactory explanations for other strange things which were obsvered---no it wasn't hacked ;-), but this problem still remains a bit mysterious. I just wanted to make sure that the problem described in my first posting is not a once well-known issue with 2.2.13 or other 2.2.x kernels, and that I didn't miss an obvious explanation. -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898