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:
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?
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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