On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:14:06 +0100, Chris Boot wrote:

> On 19/10/16 09:18, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:47 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > 
> >> On Debian's new arm64 nodes (acker and aagaard) ulogd2 always crashes
> >> with SIGSEGV some time after startup. This does not happen on our other
> >> arm64 nodes (asachi, arm-arm-03, arm-arm-04). Backtrace below:
> > 
> > According to aurel32 this might fix it:
> > 
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/680773/
> > 
> > We are indeed running Linux 4.8 on the affected machines.
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed bug report. It does appear that the cause of the
> crash is due to being fed garbage by the kernel, and upgrading to a
> later kernel when that comes along should fix things.
> 
> I'll try to raise this upstream to see whether this can be worked around
> in ulogd2 at all, but I suspect there's little that can be done within
> ulogd2 itself.
> 
> Have you raised this bug against src:linux as well? If not do let me
> know, or feel free to clone this bug yourself.
> 
I think this should just be reassigned, there's not much point working
around a kernel bug.

Cheers,
Julien

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