On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Michael Halcrow wrote:
-> I am having trouble even starting ecryptfsd as root on 2.6.24-rc7
-> without oopsing the kernel. It seems that the netlink code over
-> the last few kernel releases has been giving eCryptfs more and
-> more trouble.
I have 2.6.23.12 currently, and it's OK (minus the noted find_daemon bit).
Today I was going to 2.6.23.13, which is last stable release as of today. Did
you notice this change; likely oops material here? It looks like some
parameters are changing types:
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 5681ce3..1a0fcc5 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ struct sock *netlink_getsockbyfilp(struct file *filp)
* 1: repeat lookup - reference dropped while waiting for socket memory.
*/
int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int nonblock,
- long timeo, struct sock *ssk)
+ long *timeo, struct sock *ssk)
{
struct netlink_sock *nlk;
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff
*skb, int nonblock,
if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > sk->sk_rcvbuf ||
test_bit(0, &nlk->state)) {
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
- if (!timeo) {
+ if (!*timeo) {
if (!ssk || nlk_sk(ssk)->pid == 0)
netlink_overrun(sk);
sock_put(sk);
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff
*skb, int nonblock,
if ((atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > sk->sk_rcvbuf ||
test_bit(0, &nlk->state)) &&
!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD))
- timeo = schedule_timeout(timeo);
+ *timeo = schedule_timeout(*timeo);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
remove_wait_queue(&nlk->wait, &wait);
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff
*skb, int nonblock,
if (signal_pending(current)) {
kfree_skb(skb);
- return sock_intr_errno(timeo);
+ return sock_intr_errno(*timeo);
}
return 1;
}
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ retry:
kfree_skb(skb);
return PTR_ERR(sk);
}
- err = netlink_attachskb(sk, skb, nonblock, timeo, ssk);
+ err = netlink_attachskb(sk, skb, nonblock, &timeo, ssk);
if (err == 1)
goto retry;
if (err)
...from the patch-2.6.23.13.bz2 file on kernel.org.
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