Nework Emulation with UML, bug 8895

[clowncoder]

Hello,
You can have a configured and running network inside a single linux machine,
only one script command is enough. After the start of all the machine, a
graphical representation of your topology helps your interactions with
the network. This virtual network can be downloaded at http://clownix.net,
I must warn you, it is a 350mega bz2 file-system that needs 4 giga on 
the host.

Very usefull for networking development in kernel as proved by bug 8895
that has been found with the above tool:

The uncorrected bug 8895:

file:  /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.2/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c  line  796:   
"dst_free(&rt->u.dst);"


--- /Comment From qmiao  2007-08-29 
23:33:07 /---


   fib6_add
   ...

   if (fn->leaf == NULL) {
   fn->leaf = rt;<--**-- rt is assigned to fn->leaf
   atomic_inc(&rt->rt6i_ref);
   }
   ...
   err = fib6_add_rt2node(fn, rt, info); <-**- return -EEXIST
   ...
(Here err was not null)
   ...
   if (err) {
   ...
   dst_free(&rt->u.dst); <--**-- Actually rt is still in
tree (fn->leaf = rt /* see above */)
   ...
   }


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New UML-Based Virtual Network

[clowncoder]

Hello,
If you need a little network to test some of the kernel's
networking functions, there is a simple virtual network
available at http://clownix.net (uml_clownix_net).
Vincent Perrier
Regards
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