Re: [BK PATCH] Fix ip_conntrack_amanda data corruption bug that breaks amanda dumps

[Matthias Andree]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004, David S. Miller wrote:

> His patch isn't correct, even making a temporary change to
> a shared SKB is illegal.

So the original ip_conntrack_amanda was already illegal. If only such
nonsense caused heavy kernel logging (let it oops or GPF or whatver),
that's a much quicker way to pinpoint the bug than run amanda with a
special devnull configuration some dozen times.

> Things like tcpdump could see corrupt SKB contents if they look during
> that tiny window when the newline character has been changed to NULL
> by the amanda conntrack module.

Where is the SKB stuff documented?

-- 
Matthias Andree
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