Re: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV)

From: Ville Herva (vherva@niksula.hut.fi)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 01:42:58 EST


On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:55:07PM -0800, you [David S. Miller] wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:44, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > I've recently noticed these messages bouncing up in my logs every now
> > and again. It's always with a particular machine, one that runs 2.4.20.
> >
> > Google turns up one other post, made on Mon Jan 13
> > (http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2003/week02/0308.html)
> > but no responses or explanations followed.
>
> Try searching harder, it's a kernel bug which is fixed in
> current 2.4.21 prepatches.

For reference, the patch is at

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104399842612703&w=2

BTW: How severe is the bug? Is it a harmless message, or can it do bad
things?

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