Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:38:25 +0100 | From | Athanasius <> | Subject | Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code |
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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,
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