Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 128516
SIOCGIFNAME ioctl calls often cause the kernel to oops
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:08:11 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: SIOCGIFNAME ioctl calls often cause the kernel to oops resulting in termination of critical daemons such as DNS - in my case this is seen with dnsmasq. Otherwise the system remains stable. This is fully reproducable using the attached c code as provided by Simon Kelly, the author of dnsmasq. This only occurs with the Fedora versions of kernel 2.6 - stock 2.6.6 does not have this problem. A temporary work around for dnsmasq is to use the bind-interfaces option in dnsmasq.conf - but this only helps the dns aspect - the problem will still occur if dnsmasq is serving DHCP. Switching to a stock kernel also solves the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.358, kernel-2.6.6-1.435 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cc fedorakiller.c -o fedorakiller 2. ./fedorakiller eth0 3. inspect /var/log/messages for errors. Actual Results: Oops are seen in the syslog. Expected Results: As with the vanilla 2.6 kernels - no oops should occur. Additional info:
Created attachment 102187 [details] Reproduces SIOCGIFNAME oops
Created attachment 102188 [details] Sample oops
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