On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 03:13:59PM +0000, Stephan Loges wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> > > I must say the trace does ring some bells with me, i seem to remember more
> > > about a ax25_timer problem, as to what it was or a answer to HOWTO solve
> > > it i am at a loss at the minute.
> > Maybe, would be good to have more information on it.
>
> I don't know whether it's an 2.0.x issue, but I remember a ax25-bug where
> the kernel oopses when you ifconfig'ed down your ax25 network interface
> (or was it axctl ...-kill ??) while there was an ax25 connection open.
> Reason was a forgotten timer that wasn't stopped when it should.
That was a 2.2.x bug and fixed in 2.2.1x somewhere. The exact cause was a
NULL pointer dereference at the time the heartbeat timer expired the last
time (see ax25_timer.c).
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