Bug 113413
| Summary: | too many ipv6 aliases cause kernel oops | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Joshua Jensen <joshua> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | David Miller <davem> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | petrides, riel, tao | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-12 01:08:19 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Created attachment 96949 [details]
ipv6-crashtest.sh
This is the script that will force the kenrel to crash
Any progress on this so far? What is the upper limit to the number of IPv6 aliases that a machine can have? ? No progress, the earliest I'll be able to look at this is late next week. Created attachment 99248 [details]
Fix for ipv6 crashes.
This fix from David Stevens will fix the bug.
Dave's fix in comment #9 has just now been committed to the RHEL3 U2 kernel patch pool in kernel version 2.4.21-14.EL. An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030807 Description of problem: With the attached script, you can easily crash RHEL3 AS, with lots of pretty kernel panic and stack dumps to the screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-4.0.2.EL.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run my script as root 2. 3. Additional info: