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 -- - Athanasius = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME
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