Bug 642746
| Summary: | RHEL4.8 panic in netif_receive_skb [rhel-4.8.z] | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Don Howard <dhoward> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 4.8 | CC: | agospoda, dhoward, dwu, jolsa, jpirko, moshiro, nhorman, pep, pm-eus, tao, tgraf, xwang, yugzhang |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Regression, ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Erroneous pointer checks could have caused a kernel panic. This was due to a critical value not being copied when a network buffer was duplicated and consumed by multiple portions of the kernel's network stack. Fixing the copy operation resolved this bug.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-12-01 22:24:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 616710 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2010-10-13 18:19:22 UTC
A patch addressing this issue has been included in kernel-2.6.9-89.32.1. An advisory 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 therefore 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-2010-0936.html
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Erroneous pointer checks could have caused a kernel panic. This was due to a critical value not being copied when a network buffer was duplicated and consumed by multiple portions of the kernel's network stack. Fixing the copy operation resolved this bug.
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