Re: ipv6 activity causing system hang in kernel 2.4.4

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 18:29:37 EST


Try this patch, posted the other day. I bet if you inspected,
you'd find OOPSes in your logs:

--- ../vanilla/linux/net/ipv6/ndisc.c Thu Apr 26 22:17:26 2001
+++ net/ipv6/ndisc.c Fri May 4 18:44:54 2001
@@ -394,7 +382,7 @@
         int send_llinfo;
 
         len = sizeof(struct icmp6hdr) + sizeof(struct in6_addr);
- send_llinfo = dev->addr_len && ipv6_addr_type(saddr) != IPV6_ADDR_ANY;
+ send_llinfo = dev->addr_len && saddr && ipv6_addr_type(saddr) != IPV6_ADDR_ANY;
         if (send_llinfo)
                 len += NDISC_OPT_SPACE(dev->addr_len);
 
-
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