Bug#633738: ip6_tunnel: kernel BUG at net_namespace.c:497

[Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>]

* dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> [2011-07-15 13:24:39-0600]:
>
> tags 633738 + lenny
> 
> > > > This is a regression as I was able to do all this with earlier kernels; definately 2.6.32-34squeeze1.
> > > 
> > > hm... looks like it's from the backport of mainline commit
> > > d5aa407f59f5b83d2c50ec88f5bf56d40f1f8978. It's changing a call to
> > > register_pernet_gen_device() into a call to
> > > register_pernet_device().
> > [...]
> > 
> > Right.  And it looks like this affects lenny as well (since
> > 2.6.26-26lenny3).
> 
> Yep, I used basically the same backport for both updates. Apologies
> for the regression. 
> 
> Alexander,
>   I'd appreciate it if you could test Arnaud's proposed fix in your
> configuration to help verify that no other issues remain.
> 
I can test it on an orion5x (armel) platform this weekend (and amd64), 
but on if you wanted it tested on a kirkwood device I cannot do that 
till Tuesday at the earliest.

Looks to me that an amd64 test would be the most straight forward to do 
as it is not an ARM specific bug.

Cheers

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Alexander Clouter
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