netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

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Message-ID: <20070831123825.GW22067@miggy.org>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:38:25 +0100
From:	Athanasius <link@...gy.org>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, link@...gy.org
Subject: Re: [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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