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SubjectRe: ip_defrag is broken (was: Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback)
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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.

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 :-(.

Good spot! I've done a little mucking around with the networking
code, i.e., no promises, but maybe I can come up with a fix.

--
Bob Tracy rct@frus.com
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