Re: Oops cause by null pointer in br_nf_pre_routing_finish

Op di, 22-03-2005 te 15:18 +0000, schreef Maya Zimerman:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone has fased this problem or have an explanation.
> I am using kernel 2.4.20 patched with ebtables 2.0.6 and iptables 1.2.9
> The system seem to be pretty stable. However once every few days it reboots.
> >From debuging with prints I located the problem in br_nf_pre_routing_finish.
> For some odd reason the skb->nf_bridge is NULL when getting to this 
> function. Since there is no protection from this case the system crashes 
> when trying to use fields in skb->nf_bridge (Ex. mask).
> Is this a bug? (see Oops below)
> I also could print some packet fields when the problem happened. It was 
> allways the same packet(see below).

Hi, please upgrade to a recent kernel + patch.

cheers,
Bart




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