Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.22] OOPS in tcp_v6_get_port

From: Carl Ritson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:38:48 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> Em Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:33:19PM -0700, David S. Miller escreveu:
> > 
> > This is a known bug introduced by the struct sock splitup into
> > external per-protocol pieces done by Arnaldo de Melo.  He is working
> > on the proper fix, your proposed change will just paper over the real
> > bug.

I suspected something like that.

> Carl,
> 
> 	Can you try this patch?
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> --- orig/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c    Sat May 25 23:13:56 2002
> +++ linux/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c   Fri Jun 14 23:23:07 2002
> <diff snipped> 

This patch doesn't help, it produces exactly the same oops when decoded, I 
assume the newer patch you mention to Dave is the correct fix?

Thanks,
Carl