Bug 113413 - too many ipv6 aliases cause kernel oops
Summary: too many ipv6 aliases cause kernel oops
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Miller
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-13 17:54 UTC by Joshua Jensen
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-05-12 01:08:19 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
ipv6-crashtest.sh (147 bytes, text/plain)
2004-01-13 17:55 UTC, Joshua Jensen
no flags Details
Fix for ipv6 crashes. (1.49 KB, patch)
2004-04-08 20:57 UTC, David Miller
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2004:188 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 2 2004-05-11 04:00:00 UTC

Description Joshua Jensen 2004-01-13 17:54:16 UTC
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:

Comment 1 Joshua Jensen 2004-01-13 17:55:40 UTC
Created attachment 96949 [details]
ipv6-crashtest.sh

This is the script that will force the kenrel to crash

Comment 2 Joshua Jensen 2004-01-26 21:45:56 UTC
Any progress on this so far?  What is the upper limit to the number of
IPv6 aliases that a machine can have?

Comment 3 Joshua Jensen 2004-03-19 18:50:57 UTC
?

Comment 4 David Miller 2004-03-19 19:07:58 UTC
No progress, the earliest I'll be able to look at this is late next week.


Comment 9 David Miller 2004-04-08 20:57:31 UTC
Created attachment 99248 [details]
Fix for ipv6 crashes.

This fix from David Stevens will fix the bug.

Comment 10 Ernie Petrides 2004-04-14 22:37:41 UTC
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.


Comment 12 John Flanagan 2004-05-12 01:08:19 UTC
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



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