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SubjectRe: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:05:04PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Seems to be a bug introduced by the netlink_run_queue conversion,
> since there is no locking and netlink_run_queue doesn't check
> for NULL results from skb_dequeue, it might pass NULL to
> netlink_rcv_skb, which crashes.
>
> Does this patch help?

I'll compile up a new kernel, likely 2.6.22.6, plus this patch, and
reboot to it tonight. I still don't know *exactly* how to trigger the
bug on demand though, it's not reocurred since I posted the bug report
(but had happened about a week before as well).

thanks,

-Ath
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