Hi, I have installed and tested it as far as I could without being able to reproduce the problem. You can go ahead.
Thank you for your help. ///jon PS. I hope I will receive a hint when this is officially released, so I can alert the users who have seen the problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: boun...@canonical.com [mailto:boun...@canonical.com] On Behalf Of > Joseph Salisbury > Sent: Monday, 18 April, 2016 14:17 > To: Jon Maloy > Subject: [Bug 1567064] Re: tipc: missing linearization of sk_buff > > I built a Xenial test kernel with a cherry-pick of commit c7cad0d6f. > This test kernel can be downloaded from: > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1567064/ > > Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567064 > > Title: > tipc: missing linearization of sk_buff > > Status in linux package in Ubuntu: > In Progress > Status in linux source package in Xenial: > In Progress > > Bug description: > The TIPC binding table sometimes fails to update correctly between > nodes because we don't linearize nonlinear buffers at two places where > it is needed in the code. > > In the upstream kernel at kernel.org, the following commit was applied > on Nov 19th 2015: > > commit c7cad0d6f70cd4ce8644ffe528a4df1cdc2e77f5 ("tipc: move > linearization of buffers to generic code") that fixes this issue. > > This crucial fix made it into kernel 4.5, but unfortunately not into > 4.4 that is used in Xenial, and makes TIPC in Xenial almost unusable > as it is now. > > Now I am uncertain about how to proceed with this, since I am new with > dealing > with the Ubuntu kernel. > - Do you apply such fixes from kernel.org if I post a new one to > kernel.org/stable? (The one referred to above won't apply cleanly to 4.4). > - Or should I issue a new one directly to Ubuntu's kernel team ? > - Or do you fix it yourself (it it pretty trivial and safe if you take a > look at the > original commit I refer to) ? > > BR > Jon Maloy > Ericsson Canada Inc > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1567064/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567064 Title: tipc: missing linearization of sk_buff To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1567064/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
