Re: bug 257120 (IPSEC with AES + Conntrack + UDP -> Panic)
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:10:08AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Horms wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am happy to report that I have found a fix for this
> > problem which was developed by Hurbert Xu and posted
> > by him to the netdev mailing list late last week (sorry for the
> > delay, I have been on holidays the past few days).
>
> that's cool.
>
> >
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-07/msg00386.html
> >
> > I have verified that this resolves the problem reported
> > in this Bug report. I have put the fix into the debian-kernel
> > svn tree and it should be included in the next release,
> > tentatively kernel-source-2.4.26_2.4.26-4.
> >
> > I do not believe this bug warrants making that release -
> > it is the only change so far. I am willing to be convinced
> > otherwise.
>
> Quoting Xu:
>
> "his fixes a number of weird crashes including those AES crashes
> that people have been seeing with the 2.4 backport + ipt_conntrack."
>
> and this bug is RC since it hard freeze the system. I think it is worth to
> have it fixed asap. Also.. if it has been reported it means that people
> are using it.
Ok debian-kernel folk, what is the consensus of this ? I did not really follow
this, but will we add the patch to kernel-source and thus make an upload of
kernel-source asap ? Is there something i missed in this issue, or some other
consideration we may have ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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