Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5194] New: IPSec related OOps in 2.6.13

From: Krzysztof Oledzki
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 08:18:22 EST




On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:08:56AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

Problem Description:

Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01f562c>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010216 (2.6.13)
EIP is at sha1_update+0x7c/0x160

Thanks for the report. Matt LaPlante had exactly the same problem
a couple of days ago. I've tracked down now to my broken crypto
cipher wrapper functions which will step over a page boundary if
it's not aligned correctly.


[CRYPTO] Fix boundary check in standard multi-block cipher processors

Thanks. Patched my kernel, recompiled and waiting. So far it is OK,

Should this patch be merged into 2.6.13.1?

Best regards,

Krzysztof Olędzki