netdev - Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:33:10 +1030
From:	Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@...ernode.on.net>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags
 of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied



Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote, on 17/01/11 07:47:
> On 16/01/11 13:25, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote, on 16/01/11 21:20:
>>>
>>> Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 19:24 +1030, Arthur Marsh a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> With kernels up to and including 2.6.37-git7, inbound telnetd-ssl
>>>>> connections worked fine. With kernel 2.6.37-git9 and later inbound
>>>>> telnetd-ssl connections failed, and on machine shut-down, there
>>>>> were warning messages about daemons not return status.
>>>
>>> Which daemons are these? For reference, what distro do you happen
>>> to use?
>>
>> avahi-daemon (which gave multiple warning messages, hence I thought it
>> may have been multiple packages)
>>
>> I'm running Debian unstable with kernel.org kernels.
>>
>>>
>>>>> commit 0ab03c2b1478f2438d2c80204f7fef65b1bca9cf
>>>>>       netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite
>>>
>>> Each of the hunks in this commit is independent of another.
>>> Would you mind bisecting these too?
>>
>> Recompiling with the only the first patch (attached) resulted in a
>> repeat of the problem.
>>
>> I've removed one person from the cc: list as they did not want to
>> receive email about this even though they signed off the commit.
>
> Please, pass this patch to the avahi-daemon developers. They use an
> invalid netlink flag combination for dump operations.
>
> This patch has spotted a problem that they have to fix indeed.
>

I've forwarded this on as a Debian bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610281

Regards,

Arthur.
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