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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:41:19 +0100
From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>
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To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bug] OOPS with nf_conntrack_ipv6, probably fragmented UDPv6
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Patrick McHardy wrote:

>> I've hit another kernel oops with 2.6.20-rc3 on i386 platform. It is
>> reproducible, as soon as I load nf_conntrack_ipv6 and try to send
>> something large (scp or so) inside an OpenVPN tunnel on my client
>> (patched with UDPv6 transport) the router (another box) OOPSes.
>>
>> tcpdump suggests the problem appears as soon as my client sends
>> fragmented UDPv6 packets towards the destination. It does not happen
>> when nf_conntrack_ipv6 is not loaded. This is the OOPS as dumped from
>> the serial console:
> Does this patch help?

Yes, seems to be working fine.

Can you tell since when this bug is in the kernel?

Regards,
Bernhard
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