On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 13:00 +0100, Reinhard Karcher wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1 > Severity: normal > > The kernel log says all! > I have 2 laptops showing the messages, both amd64. > One of them runs a 32-bit system in a VM with the linux-image-3.3.0-rc6-686-pae kernel, > that does not have this problem. > The amd64 kernel from unstable (3.2.0-2) does not show the messages. > > Reinhard > > -- Package-specific info: > ** Version: > Linux version 3.3.0-rc6-amd64 (Debian 3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1) (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-1) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 5 20:53:11 UTC 2012 > > ** Command line: > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.0-rc6-amd64 root=UUID=9bb56ba6-3117-47d6-b07c-2cca477643e9 ro quiet cgroup_enable=memory > > ** Not tainted > > ** Kernel log: > [46368.760279] netlink: 140 bytes leftover after parsing attributes. [...] The code that generates this warning (nla_parse()) has not changed between 3.2 and 3.3-rc6, so this is probably due to a difference elsewhere. It seems to indicate a bug in the userland program sending the message that is being parsed, but perhaps I misunderstand. It would be useful if we could tell which program is sending the message, but I think that may be difficult to do. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.
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