Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Paul Moore <paul.moore@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Stephen Smalley <sds@...>
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 10:16 am

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, James Morris wrote:


Don't worry about that -- I reproduced it with Paul Moore's git tree:
git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_testing

(under current -mm, the e1000 driver doesn't find my ethernet card & the 
tcl tests won't run without an external interface).

The offending commit is when SELinux is converted to the new ifindex 
interface:

  9c6ad8f6895db7a517c04c2147cb5e7ffb83a315 is first bad commit
  commit 9c6ad8f6895db7a517c04c2147cb5e7ffb83a315
  Author: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
  Date:   Fri Dec 21 11:44:26 2007 -0500

      SELinux: Convert the netif code to use ifindex values

      [...]

In some case (not yet fully identified -- also happens when avahi starts 
up, although seemingly silently & without obvious issues), SELinux is 
passed an ifindex of 1515870810, which corresponds to 0x5a5a5a5a, the slab 
poison value, suggesting a race in the calling code where we're being 
asked to check an skb which has been freed.

The SELinux code is erroring out before performing an access check 
(perhaps there should be WARN_ON, at least), so this will affect both 
permissive and enforcing mode without generating any log messages.

Andrew: I suggest dropping the patchset from -mm until Paul gets back from 
vacation.


- James
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2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Sun Dec 23, 3:30 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Dave Young, (Wed Dec 26, 4:37 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Dec 23, 12:27 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Fri Dec 28, 6:53 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Fri Dec 28, 7:07 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Dec 29, 12:51 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Herbert Xu, (Sat Dec 29, 9:30 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Dec 29, 11:34 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Mon Dec 31, 4:15 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Herbert Xu, (Tue Jan 1, 8:04 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Wed Jan 2, 2:29 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Herbert Xu, (Wed Jan 2, 5:51 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Fri Jan 4, 6:23 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Jarek Poplawski, (Fri Jan 4, 9:30 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Fri Jan 4, 11:21 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Fri Jan 4, 5:24 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Jarek Poplawski, (Fri Jan 4, 8:07 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Jan 5, 4:01 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Jarek Poplawski, (Sat Jan 5, 6:13 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Jan 5, 10:52 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Jan 5, 6:10 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Jan 5, 11:16 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Sat Jan 5, 9:25 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Sat Jan 5, 11:28 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Jan 6, 6:41 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Sun Jan 6, 7:23 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Jan 6, 7:35 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Sun Jan 6, 9:33 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Jan 6, 4:03 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Mon Jan 7, 2:16 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Fri Jan 25, 5:06 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 8, 11:59 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Tue Jan 8, 7:57 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Jarek Poplawski, (Wed Jan 9, 5:04 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Wed Jan 9, 8:54 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 8, 8:27 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, FUJITA Tomonori, (Tue Jan 8, 8:54 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 8, 9:07 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Jarek Poplawski, (Sun Jan 6, 4:27 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Jan 6, 6:30 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Jarek Poplawski, (Sun Jan 6, 10:52 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed Jan 2, 5:57 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Thu Jan 3, 11:37 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, J. Bruce Fields, (Thu Jan 3, 2:52 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Thu Jan 3, 1:02 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Tue Jan 1, 8:59 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Tue Jan 1, 2:29 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Dec 30, 1:41 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, J. Bruce Fields, (Sun Dec 30, 5:24 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Dec 30, 5:35 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Mon Dec 31, 9:17 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Sun Dec 23, 4:39 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Thu Dec 27, 7:42 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Thu Dec 27, 10:30 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 Kernel panics at different functions (), Kamalesh Babulal, (Thu Dec 27, 4:49 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 Kernel panics at different functions (), Kamalesh Babulal, (Fri Dec 28, 5:11 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 Kernel panics at different functions (), Kamalesh Babulal, (Thu Dec 27, 6:25 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage, James Morris, (Wed Dec 26, 10:16 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - e1000 breakage, James Morris, (Wed Dec 26, 7:39 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (driver core/sysfs), Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 4:11 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (driver core/sysfs), Greg KH, (Fri Jan 11, 9:05 pm)
[patch] auto-qa Kconfig, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Jan 14, 12:11 pm)
Re: [patch] auto-qa Kconfig, Pavel Machek, (Tue Jan 15, 6:13 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: gpio/W1), Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 2:19 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: gpio/W1), Evgeniy Polyakov, (Sat Jan 5, 11:29 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: gpio/W1), Ville , (Sat Jan 5, 12:16 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: gpio/W1), Randy Dunlap, (Sat Jan 5, 1:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: gpio_keys), Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 2:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: gpio_keys), David Brownell, (Mon Dec 31, 2:40 pm)
[PATCH -mm] gpio: fix x86 build problem: gpio_keys, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 3:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH -mm] gpio: fix x86 build problem: gpio_keys, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 1, 11:32 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 (build problem: v4l / i2c), Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 2:18 pm)
[PATCH -mm] driver core: build with SYSFS=n, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 2:05 pm)
[PATCH -mm] crypto: scatterwalk.h needs sched.h, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Dec 31, 2:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH -mm] crypto: scatterwalk.h needs sched.h, Herbert Xu, (Mon Dec 31, 6:31 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: __raw_spin_is_contended undefined, Joseph Fannin, (Wed Dec 26, 10:21 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: __raw_spin_is_contended undefined, Nick Piggin, (Thu Dec 27, 1:21 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Wed Dec 26, 8:29 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, David Miller, (Wed Dec 26, 11:05 pm)
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Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, David Miller, (Sat Dec 29, 4:14 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Dec 29, 4:48 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, David Miller, (Sat Dec 29, 4:54 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Dec 29, 5:06 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, David Miller, (Sat Dec 29, 5:18 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Dec 29, 5:53 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, David Miller, (Sat Dec 29, 5:15 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64, David Miller, (Sat Dec 29, 4:27 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andreas Mohr, (Tue Dec 25, 5:51 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: suspend broken on HP nx6325 due to cpufr..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Dec 23, 6:54 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: suspend broken on HP nx6325 due to cpufr..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Dec 24, 10:13 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Dec 23, 8:35 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Dec 23, 7:09 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Dec 23, 9:00 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Dec 23, 9:48 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Dec 23, 9:53 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Dec 23, 4:09 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Dec 23, 6:44 pm)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Dec 23, 7:04 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Dec 23, 7:10 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Sun Dec 23, 7:34 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Dec 23, 7:57 am)
Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Dec 23, 8:12 am)