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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:38:01 -0800
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From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@redhat.com
Subject: ip_defrag is broken (was: Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback)
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:15:04 -0500, Mohammad A. Haque <mhaque@haque.net> wrote:
> Were you connected to a network or receiving/sending anything?

ip_defrag is broken -- there is an obvious NULL pointer dereference
in it, introduced in test12. It doesn't hit normally, because of
path MTU discovery, but using NFS causes instant death.

I won't venture a fix, as I don't know the networking code well
enough. So far, no networking maintainer has had anything to say
about this bug on the list...

Ion

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