linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.20.17 review 00/58] 2.6.20.17 -stable review

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Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0708220946hc2943f5jdb33215cdfab08d1@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:46:58 +0200
From:	"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
To:	"James Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	"Stephen Smalley" <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, "Willy Tarreau" <w@....eu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.20.17 review 00/58] 2.6.20.17 -stable review

On 22/08/07, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>
> > On 22/08/07, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > >
> > > > Oops, never mind - tail still follows secmark, so that shouldn't matter.
> > > > So I'm not sure why we are getting a bad value for secmark here - should
> > > > be initialized to zero and never modified unless there is an iptables
> > > > secmark rule.
> > >
> > > Michal, do you see this in current git?
> >
> > No, I do not see this problem in 2.6.23. I had similar problem last
> > month, but it is fixed now.
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/12/362
>
> The previous problem is theoretically unrelated.  It arose via a separate
> mechanism which can't be used at the same as the one you're seeing now in
> the logs.
>
> So this either looks like a problem which has gone unnoticed and was
> inadvertently fixed at some point, or is unique to the 2.6.20 stable
> series.

Yup, it is very interesting why no one noticed it. Binary search in progress:
good - 2.6.20.4
bad - 2.6.20.8

Regards,
Michal

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