Re: Remotely triggered kernel panic on PPPoE + IPv6 enabled linuxboxes

[Andrew Morton]

(Somebody has been editing email headers again.  Please do reply-to-all
when working on the kernel).

Pasi Valminen <okun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I can trigger a kernel panic from a remote host using tracepath6.
>  > First I connect to the internet using pppoe.
>  PPPoE is not needed to crash the kernel. Plain vanilla 2.6.7 will crash
>  just fine without it, seems like bringing up an ipv6 tunnel is enough.
>  Then just
> 
>  $ tracepath6 <your tunnel ipv6 endpoint>

These problems were allegedly fixed post-2.6.7.  Please retest using the
latest kernel from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots
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