Description of problem: Playing around with ping6 / tracepath6 got a panic. Last few shell commands were: $ ping6 ::ffff:172.16.21.161 $ tracepath6 ::ffff:172.16.21.161 $ tracepath6 ::172.16.21.161 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 (i686) How reproducible: Seems to be tracepath6 ::172.16.21.161 does this every time. Additional info: Hand transcribed panic screen: Eip 04bbb62e Ooops 0000 Modules: ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter iptables ipv6 e100 mii floppy sg scsi_mod dm_mod ext3 jbd CPU: 0 EIP 0060:[<04bbb62e>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.6-1.435.2.3) EIP is at ipv6_chkaddr+0xf/0x9b [ipv6] eax: 00000008 ebx: 00000005 ecx: 00000001 edx: 03300800 esi: 02d554c0 edi: 02354fd0 ebp: 00000008 esp: 02345f6c ds:007b es:007b ss:0068 Process swapper (0, threadinfo: 02345000 task:022c8a80) Stack: 00000001 03300880 00000005 02d554c0 02345fd0 0360071c 04bc4ace 80000000 00000246 02049680 03300800 00000000 03600800 0255f012 036006fc 00000246 00000246 036006a0 429a8990 02345fd0 02345fd0 0223c178 0223c081 036006fc Call Trace: [<04bc4ace>] ndisc_solicit+0x42/0x170 [ipv6] [<0223c178>] neigh_timer_handler+0xf7/0x112 [<0223c081>] neigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x112 [<0211dcab>] run_timer_softirq+0x10b/0x12a [<02238df8>] net_rx_action+0x5d/0xcd [<0211ae01>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x73 [<02107390>] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d [<0210403b>] do_IRQ+0x15d/0x169 [<02112590>] default_idle+0x23/0x26 [<02112590>] apm_cpu_idle+0xe4/0x121 [<0210408c>] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34 [<0231c518>] start_kernel+0x178/0x17a Code: 0f b6 40 02 33 45 0c 89 c2 c1 ea 10 31 d0 89 c2 c1 ea 08 31 <0>Kernel Panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler - not syncing
Seems to be fixed in kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2