Re: 2.1.90 oops

Dancer (dancer@brisnet.org.au)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:33:46 +1000

Thanks. We just upgraded to 2.1.90 on a redundant machine, with
beneficial, but not entirely heartening, results.

D

Krzysztof G. Baranowski wrote:
>
> While testing the million monkey theory, Dancer wrote:
> >We see this with kernel 2.1.78. We can reliably blow things up by
> >playing with IP-aliases, and get the panic you list. Is there a master
> >changelog anywhere for 2.1? A sort of: 'X was done to fix Y'
> Well, the problem with aliases - NULL dereference - is fixed in
> 2.1.90. (don't know if we're talking about the same bug)
> It happened for example when i:
>
> setup a netdevice:
> $ ifconfig eth0 yadda......
> setup an alias:
> $ ifconfig eth0:0 yadda
> down the device:
> $ ifconfig eth0 down
>
> Now when removing appropriate module (eg. rmmod ne) I got GPF.
> Is this the same problem, just upgrade your kernel to 2.1.90.
>
> HTH,
> Kris
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