[gentoo-kernel] help needed on bug #219400

[gentoo-kernel] help needed on bug #219400

[Daniel Drake]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219400

If anyone is interested, it would be great if someone could try and 
reproduce it. I have looked at it briefly myself but (lazily) skipped 
over it because it involves a several things that I don't know much 
about - vifs, bridges, tun/tap, etc.

But, if someone could spare an hour or so to learn about these things, 
and then attempt to reproduce (documenting your work, so that others of 
us can try to reproduce too), then perhaps we can make some progress :)

Thanks,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-kernel] help needed on bug #219400

[Makros Chandras]

On Monday 08 December 2008 02:10:32 Daniel Drake wrote:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219400
>
> If anyone is interested, it would be great if someone could try and
> reproduce it. I have looked at it briefly myself but (lazily) skipped
> over it because it involves a several things that I don't know much
> about - vifs, bridges, tun/tap, etc.
>
> But, if someone could spare an hour or so to learn about these things,
> and then attempt to reproduce (documenting your work, so that others of
> us can try to reproduce too), then perhaps we can make some progress :)
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Daniel I am using bridged interfaces on 2.6.26-gentoo-r4. Cant reproduce it 
right now. I m gonna look it more carefully tomorrow noon

I ll keep in touch

Markos Chandras

Re: [gentoo-kernel] help needed on bug #219400

[Duane Griffin]

2008/12/8 Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219400
>
> If anyone is interested, it would be great if someone could try and
> reproduce it. I have looked at it briefly myself but (lazily) skipped over
> it because it involves a several things that I don't know much about - vifs,
> bridges, tun/tap, etc.

I've used bonded interfaces and tun/tap from about 2.6.21 onwards. The
only problems I've seen like this were with earlier kernels which
could deadlock and hang when bonded interfaces were taken down. Those
problems should all have been fixed some time ago, though. Looking at
the bug report it isn't clear that it has been observed on recent
non-hardened kernels.

Cheers,
Duane.

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