Bug#585770: a collection of NULL pointer dereference [ipv6 and vlans?]
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 20:45 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > cimarosa.d.o runs linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64 (from 2.6.32-9) just
> > fine.
> >
> > However, it does not boot with linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64
> > (2.6.32-15):
> >
> > During boot up, when init brings up the network we get various different
> > kernel NULL pointer dereferences. Cimarosa has a lo, an eth0 and an
> > eth0.221 vlan device. If the eth0.221 is not configured to be brought
> > up on boot then the system boots correctly, and bringing up the
> > interface later also appears to work without any ill effects. So
> > there might be some racy thing going on.
> >
> > It'd be pretty sweet if cimarosa could be made to work with a recent
> > debian kernel.
> [...]
>
> Could you try reverting the patch
> bugfix/all/vlan-macvlan-propagate-transmission-state-to-upper-layer.patch ?
That appears to have helped.
| * Rebuild without
| bugfix/all/vlan-macvlan-propagate-transmission-state-to-upper-layer.patch.
| - change macvlan-allow-multiple-driver-backends.patch to apply cleanly.
weasel@cimarosa:~$ uname -a
Linux cimarosa 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 14 11:14:51 CEST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
weasel@cimarosa:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-15) (weasel@came.sbg.ac.at) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #1 SMP Mon Jun 14 11:14:51 CEST 2010
Cheers,
weasel
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