Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:04:27 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] Fix ip_conntrack_amanda data corruption bug that breaks amanda dumps |
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On Thu, 04 Nov 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> His patch isn't correct, even making a temporary change to > a shared SKB is illegal.
So the original ip_conntrack_amanda was already illegal. If only such nonsense caused heavy kernel logging (let it oops or GPF or whatver), that's a much quicker way to pinpoint the bug than run amanda with a special devnull configuration some dozen times.
> Things like tcpdump could see corrupt SKB contents if they look during > that tiny window when the newline character has been changed to NULL > by the amanda conntrack module.
Where is the SKB stuff documented?
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