Changing time causes ipv6 panics

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
Fri Feb 10 22:39:08 PST 2006


>>>>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:50:25 -0500, 
>>>>> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> said:

>> Sorry, not really (we've not got a test environment to reproduce it).
>> But from a quick review of nd6.c, there seems to be one thing that is
>> obviously wrong.  The possible bug has been there since rev. 1.19
>> committed in April 2002.  We've been probably just lucky so far...
>> 
>> Could you try the patch attached below?  We'll probably also need to
>> apply this fix to 4.X and 5.X.

> The patch did not fix the panic.

Hmm, but this time the point where the panic happened should be
different.  Can you identify where it was?

>> (a note about the patch: the first chunk is actually not related to
>> the bug, but I could not miss the trivial typo)

> You missed the other one though :-)

That's right:-)  I was informed of that one off-list.

>> -	 * However, from a stricter speci-confrmance standpoint, we should
>> +	 * However, from a stricter spec-confrmance standpoint, we should
>                                              ^o

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp


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