Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:46:21 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage |
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:16:25 +1100 (EST) James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, James Morris wrote: > > > What does the following say ? > > > > # sestatus && rpm -q selinux-policy > > Don't worry about that -- I reproduced it with Paul Moore's git tree: > git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_testing > > (under current -mm, the e1000 driver doesn't find my ethernet card & the > tcl tests won't run without an external interface).
You might need to enable CONFIG_E1000E.
> The offending commit is when SELinux is converted to the new ifindex > interface: > > 9c6ad8f6895db7a517c04c2147cb5e7ffb83a315 is first bad commit > commit 9c6ad8f6895db7a517c04c2147cb5e7ffb83a315 > Author: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> > Date: Fri Dec 21 11:44:26 2007 -0500 > > SELinux: Convert the netif code to use ifindex values > > [...] > > In some case (not yet fully identified -- also happens when avahi starts > up, although seemingly silently & without obvious issues), SELinux is > passed an ifindex of 1515870810, which corresponds to 0x5a5a5a5a, the slab > poison value, suggesting a race in the calling code where we're being > asked to check an skb which has been freed. > > The SELinux code is erroring out before performing an access check > (perhaps there should be WARN_ON, at least), so this will affect both > permissive and enforcing mode without generating any log messages. > > Andrew: I suggest dropping the patchset from -mm until Paul gets back from > vacation.
OK, thanks.
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