netdev - Re: some weird corruption in net-2.6.24

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Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:57:19 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: some weird corruption in net-2.6.24

* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 2007-08-30 22:39
> 
> Every so often some piece of userland dies, and often it's
> bad enough that my desktop session logs out.
> 
> I've been trying to find some clues and it seems to happen
> about as often as openswan rekeys my VPN, so one suspect
> area is the netlink cleanups to xfrm_user.
> 
> I plan to do some auditing of those changes looking for
> errors, but if someone can beat me to it... :-)

I've been trying to reproduce this, what happens on my system
is that when the ISAKMP SA lifetime is exceeded the rekeying
fails and my connection dies. I can reproduce this back to
2.6.22 and it doesn't seem related to my recent xfrm_user work.
It looks like this behaviour is hiding the bug you are seeing.
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