Re: Those Stupid Modules Messages...

Regis Duchesne (regis@via.ecp.fr)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:11:16 +0100 (CET)


> My 2.1.86 today produced this:
> Feb 12 09:31:32 busconductor modprobe: can't locate module
> ^M[^A@^Py^??T+^I@^Pr
I fixed this bug in 2.1.85. I also gave an explanation of
it:

"the 2.1.79 patch (net/ipv4/af_inet.c) allowed the device to handle every
ioctl call that the INET socket can not handle itself. This revealed a
weakness of dev_ioctl(), which does not look at the ioctl _before_
assuming that it can handle it, and it can load the adequate device
module."

As my patch is still in 2.1.86, is it definitely _not_ the same bug, but
probably another revealed weakness.

> It is not producable like it was before (ie telnet to machine and get
> message is syslog), and this is the only so far, but there must still be
> some strange bug lurking about. (You can just TELL I'm a kernel hacker,
> can't you? ;)
Please make all what you can to reproduce it. If you manage to reproduce
it, I can easily help you to track this bug down.

Regards,

Regis "HPReg" Duchesne - Engineering Student at ***** ******** *****
www http://www.via.ecp.fr/~regis/
(O o) I use Linux & 3Com (1135 KB/s over 10Mb/s ethernet)
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