Subject: Re: [NET] IPv6 oops bisected

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:56:07 -0400

Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> The commit
>>>
>>> commit 5f5dace1ce001b24fb8286e09ffd3c4d2b547e09
>>> Author: Denis V. Lunev <[email-masked]>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 27 12:41:26 2007 -0700
>>>
>>>     [NET]: Various dst_ifdown routines to catch refcounting bugs
>>>
>>> causes a 100% reproducible oops in net-2.6.24.git, in ip6_route_add().
>>>
>>> Platform: x86-64 Fedora 7
>>>
>>> Config and lspci attached.
>> And indeed, reverting this commit with 'patch -R' makes things work again.
>>
>>     Jeff
> 
> Can you me command to execute to reproduce the problem? and oops if
> possible.

The command is Fedora 7 initscripts...

(typing in by hand)

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6: line 246: 1760 Killed
	LC_ALL=C /sbin/ip $options

NULL pointer dereference at 0x000003f8

backtrace:
:ipv6:ip6_route_add+0x1b1/0x543
rtnetlink_rcv_msg
inet6_rtm_newroute
netlink_run_queue
rtnetlink_rcv
netlink_data_ready
netlink_sendskb
netlink_sendmsg
sock_send_msg
mntput_no_expire
autoremove_wake_function
find_lock_page
zone_statistics
get_page_from_freelist
__alloc_pages
move_addr_to_kernel
verify_iovec
sys_sendmsg