Re: Problems with /proc/net/tcp6 - possible bug - ipv6

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Sat Jan 22 2011 - 16:20:51 EST


Le samedi 22 janvier 2011 Ã 11:42 -0800, PK a Ãcrit :
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > I had some incidents, after hours of testing...
> >
> > After following patch, I could not reproduce it.
>
>
> Looks like that patch solved the /proc/net/tcp6 problem. The causal commit was
> the one you identified... confirmed with bisect.
>
> These warnings show up when I run the script (or I presume any tcp6 connection
> flooder) with /proc/sys/net/tcp/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle enabled. There's textual
> corruption of the traces a lot of the time. Here's a sample trace that doesn't
> appear to be corrupt. All the warnings I've seen are from route.c:209, and I
> don't see how that would cause memory corruption.

Thats a different isse, already reported, under investigation.

David did some changes recently

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/179874




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