Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: TCP crashes kernel | Date | 27 Feb 1998 17:05:19 GMT |
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In article <199802242140.QAA06646@highwind.com>, William T. Waters <bill@highwind.com> wrote: >I have discovered a problem with what looks like the networking layer of the >Linux kernel. The following program will consistently crash an intel box. >It is crippling our efforts to port our software to Linux -- under any sort of >load whatsoever, machines are rolling over & just dying. Sometimes the >program will SEGV or get a Bus Error, sometimes we get kernel syslogs, and >frequently the whole machine will seize up completely. > >Alan Cox has confirmed that this is a problem in 2.0.33, and I just repeated >it on the latest 2.1.88 kernel as well. > >Is anyone else seeing this error in the "real world"?
Ok, it seems to be fixed by the latest pre-89-3.
I will consider this particular bug closed unless somebody can show that even pre-89-3 can be brought down this way, so please folks, give this a try..
Linus
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