Bug#656476: Sundance network driver (D-Link DFE-580TX) timeouts rendering interface unusable

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

found 656476 linux-2.6/2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch1
quit

Hi Mike,

Mike . wrote:

> Grabbed an old Etch (4.0r7) iso and installed it to test for the
> problem and indeed after some heavy traffic the error occurs.
>
> etch-dlink-test:~# dpkg -l |grep linux-image
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18-6-686          2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch1                Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
>
> After downgrading the kernel-image (taken from an Etch 4.0r6 iso) to :
>
> etch-dlink-test:~# dpkg -l |grep linux-image
> ii  linux-image-2.6.18-6-686          2.6.18.dfsg.1-23etch1                Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
>
> I tested the box for an hour with maximum incoming+outgoing traffic on the interface without any problems.

That's awesome. :)  Does 2.6.20-1 reproduce the bug, too?

That range points to

  * NET: Add preemption point in qdisc_run (CVE-2008-5713)

which is commit v2.6.25-rc9~99^2~24 (2008-03-28) upstream as the
triggering change.  Old kernels can be found at
http://snapshot.debian.org/ if you are curious about how any
particular one behaves.