Networking Patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 Jun 96 22:26 BST


I've got one patch that was mislaid somewhere

o Fixes to sort out IP_FORWARD and snmp configuration thereof.

I think everything that is going to go into 2.0 is now in, if there is something
important (and I mean _IMPORTANT_) missing please scream loudly at this point
and before thursday. This is your LAST chance.

Note. The bridge will now be commented out. Its not workable enough. Sort it
in 2.1

Current bug list. Some of these small ones could be fixed easily - like
the ext2fs module and securelevel.

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What I have at the moment on the bug list for 2.0pre12+collected patches (I'll
post these soon).

Show Stoppers
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SCSI disk crashes under load (repeated reset/timeout etc)
mcd module unload while in use (unverified)

Nasty
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A few people get negative values on kfree counts. Something is doing a wrong
free type probably. [Hopefully fixed in patch sent to linus earlier]
ASB not free! on token ring card seems to lose a buffer and lock driver
Musserver crashes SB16 driver [Hannu has patches for apparently]

Annoying
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mrouted unable to send reports for multicast addresses from one user
TCP bug send list out of order [locking bug ??]
Cant insmod e2fs (needs securelevel adding) <<-- trivial someone do this
AIC7xxx module doesnt release used by count on scsi mod during init failure
locking scsi module into place
Fasync crash on sparc + odd ix86 reports
Limit for data size should include data/bss in ELF as well as a.out
TCP interworking bug with faulty windows stack
sbpcd driver interlock audio v mounting
DMA allocations dont have a blocking form - nuisance on module loads

Cosmetic/Experimental Only
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[Pulled bridge]
Make xconfig doesnt set all config opts right (NETLINK)
SMP microtimer has problems with atomicity

Unduplicated
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acct() disk corruption report.
panic: ip_evictor
SMB crash smb_proc_connect [looks like a recursion crash]
Stale messages on PPro + myrinet - hardware or software ?
UDP flood crash on Digital alpha
SIGIO oddities in TCP
rwhod/dummy crash
running out of memory crashes - is this a libc5.3.12/mmap/mremap not being
properly subject to limit issue ?
Report that srcroute is still faulty
smb_receive: receive error -512
.7 to .8 broke ARP badly.
Tunnel may still be broken

Alan