* Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-16 12:46
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, John W. Linville wrote:
> > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fedora-netdev/
>
> I guess the test can be termed a 'success' because after updating from
> 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 to 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.netdev.1, I get 100%
> reproducible kernel hang (everything just freezes as it is, no message
> to /var/log/messages or anywhere) after I run '/sbin/ip -6 r l' or try
> to use IPv6 in basically any other way on my ThinkPad laptop with
> external orinoco_cs WLAN card.
>
> Any thoughts for the next steps?
It's probably missing this patch:
The recent change to netlink dump "done" callback handling broke IPv6
which played dirty tricks with the "done" callback. This causes an
infinite loop during a dump.
The following patch fixes it.
This bug was reported by Jeff Garzik.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1701,10 +1701,8 @@ static void fib6_dump_end(struct netlink
fib6_walker_unlink(w);
kfree(w);
}
- if (cb->args[1]) {
- cb->done = (void*)cb->args[1];
- cb->args[1] = 0;
- }
+ cb->done = (void*)cb->args[1];
+ cb->args[1] = 0;
}
static int fib6_dump_done(struct netlink_callback *cb)
-
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