netdev - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c

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Date:	Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:37:53 +0100
From:	Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, greg@...ah.com,
	jwboyer@...il.com, hch@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	david@...morbit.com, stable@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c

Hi Greg,

Am 02.02.2012 16:04, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> Hmm, thats a problem, we need a stable 3.0 kernel for sure.
>
> Should distros handle this tricky problem themselves ?
>
> I tried to find a solution, but we had so many changes in this part of
> the code that its really hard.
>
> I see 3 ways :
>
> 1) Warn the world 3.0 is unfixable and should be avoided.
>     Ask stable team to instead support 3.1 or 3.2
>
> 2) Disable redirects on 3.0
>
> 3) Maybe try to revert f39925dbde77
>
> (ipv4: Cache learned redirect information in inetpeer.)
>
> Unfortunately this was introduced in 2.6.39, and it seems trying to
> revert it on 3.0 tree is not trivial.

as the stable maintainer. What's your opinion?

Stefan
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