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From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost•ag>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: greg@kroah•com, eric.dumazet@gmail•com, jwboyer@gmail•com,
	hch@infradead•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org, david@fromorbit•com,
	stable@vger•kernel.org, gregkh@suse•de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:55:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2A87B0.6070900@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120201.162157.880976652659067010.davem@davemloft.net>


> Such a non-trivial backport has the danger of adding as many bugs as
> it is intended to fix.
> 
> Therefore I will not be attempting to make this fix feasible for
> 3.0.x-stable, sorry.
> 
> I seriously suggest that if you really are hitting this race (the
> exposure is very small, it only happens if you get redirects and
> redirects are not common for most hosts) that you move to a more
> recent kernel such as 3.1.x or 3.2.x, both of which have all the
> dependencies as well as the bug fix applied.

I fully understand that - i'm seeing this bug 2-3 times a week while
running a bunch of > 1000 servers.

I don't want to go to 3.1 or 3.2 as they're not long term.

So i'll try to make own backport. First steps done and seems to work
fine. Sadly i'm not a C programmer...

Greets

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4ED7C367.3070109@profihost.ag>
2011-12-01 18:23 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 20:20   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 20:37     ` Josh Boyer
2011-12-01 21:05       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-02  6:08         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02  6:17           ` David Miller
2011-12-02  7:19             ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 17:34               ` David Miller
2011-12-02 18:53                 ` Greg KH
2011-12-09 19:01           ` Stefan Priebe
2011-12-09 19:21             ` David Miller
2011-12-10  9:03               ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30  8:38                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-01-30 17:12                   ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 17:21                     ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:07                     ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:53                       ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 21:48                         ` David Miller
2012-01-30 21:56                           ` Greg KH
2012-01-31  8:08                           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-01 21:21                             ` David Miller
2012-02-02 12:55                               ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
2012-02-02 15:04                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-02 18:37                                   ` Stefan Priebe
2012-02-02 19:39                                   ` David Miller
2012-02-03  0:42                                     ` Greg KH
2012-02-03  6:48                                       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03  7:26                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03  8:09                                           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 11:04                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 15:53                                               ` Greg KH
2012-02-06  9:04                                                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06  9:19                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 12:47                                                     ` TCP sacked_out and fackets_out inconsistency (Was: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c) Ilpo Järvinen
2012-02-08  8:26                                                       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08  9:15                                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-08  9:28                                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06  9:02                                               ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06  9:16                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 11:31                                                   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08  8:24                                                     ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 16:49                                                       ` Greg KH
2012-02-09  6:43                                                         ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 20:19                                                       ` David Miller
2012-02-09  1:26                                             ` David Miller
2012-02-09  6:44                                               ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-09 22:13                                               ` David Miller
2012-02-10  7:04                                                 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-10  7:07                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 18:25                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 20:41                                                       ` David Miller
2012-02-03 15:52                                         ` Greg KH
2011-12-12  9:45           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-12 12:57             ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG

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