Bug 4029 – pump crashes on some nonstandard kernel builds

Bug 4029 - pump crashes on some nonstandard kernel builds

Summary:	pump crashes on some nonstandard kernel builds

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	pump (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Brock Organ
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Duplicates:	4294 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	1999-07-14 08:54 EDT by lofgren
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2000-04-25 09:07:59 EDT
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Description lofgren 1999-07-14 08:54:36 EDT

If the kernel does not have the "Packet socket" and "Socket
filtering" options enabled, pump will core dump.  I haven't
looked in the source, but I would guess it's getting an
error return from a socket() call, and the error checking is
done incorrectly or completely ignored.

dhclient does the right thing, and exits gracefully while
saying what kernel features should be present.  I would
never have made networking work without using dhclient (part
of the isc dhcp distribution), since pump wouldn't tell me
anything.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-07-14 17:58:59 EDT

I have verified that compiling a kernel with the Packet Socket and
Socket Filtering options turned off, pump will dump core when trying
to initialize the network device. I have assigned this to a developer
for further review.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-31 18:41:59 EDT

*** Bug 4294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

pump dumps core when running with my own compiled
2.2.10 kernel.

I could attach the core dump, if there only was a way to
attach it.  (I guess that would qualify as a bug/enhancement
request for bugzilla).

Arieh

------- Additional Comments From jturner@redhat.com  08/02/99 08:48 -------
Submit the core dump in the same method as you would submit a patch.
Check the FAQ for the proper subject line for submitting a patch and
it will get attached to your bug automatically.

Comment 3 Jari Turkia 2000-01-09 06:30:59 EST

After spending several hours trying to get my eth1 up with pump (DHCP via cable
modem) I found out that my packet socket (AF_PACKET) was configured as module in
kernel (tried versions 2.2.5-15 and 2.2.5-22 on RH6.0). After changing the
packet socket option to be built-in feature, pump started working.

Comment 4 Erik Troan 2000-02-03 11:00:59 EST

Jay, please build a kernel that exhibts this problem. It should be easy enough
to fix.

Comment 5 Brock Organ 2000-04-17 17:47:59 EDT

Recompiling the kernel this way in 6.2, pump fails gracefully:

[root@localhost /root]# /sbin/pump -i eth0 --status
Operation failed.
[root@localhost /root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Mon Apr 17 15:58:22 EDT 2000 i586
unknown
[root@localhost /root]#

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