I think the attached is probably an equivalent cleaned up reproducer. Note that if the length given to sendfile() is less than 65536, it fails with EINVAL before it gets into __ip6_append_data(). David --- #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <arpa/inet.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdarg.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/sendfile.h> #include <sys/uio.h> #include <netinet/ip6.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #define IPPROTO_L2TP 115 #define OSERROR(R, S) \ do { if ((long)(R) == -1L) { perror((S)); exit(1); } } while(0) static char buffer[16776960]; int main() { struct sockaddr_in6 sin6; int ffd, dfd, sfd; ffd = openat(AT_FDCWD, "cgroup.controllers", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0); OSERROR(ffd, "cgroup.controllers/f"); OSERROR(write(ffd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)), "write"); dfd = openat(AT_FDCWD, "cgroup.controllers", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK | O_DIRECT); OSERROR(dfd, "cgroup.controllers/d"); sfd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_L2TP); OSERROR(dfd, "socket"); memset(&sin6, 0, sizeof(sin6)); sin6.sin6_family = AF_INET6; sin6.sin6_port = htons(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[0] = htonl(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[1] = htonl(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[2] = htonl(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[3] = htonl(1); OSERROR(bind(sfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sin6, 32), "bind"); memset(&sin6, 0, sizeof(sin6)); sin6.sin6_family = AF_INET6; sin6.sin6_port = htons(7); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[0] = htonl(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[1] = htonl(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[2] = htonl(0); sin6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[3] = htonl(1); OSERROR(connect(sfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sin6, 32), "connect"); OSERROR(sendfile(sfd, dfd, NULL, 65536), "sendfile"); return 0; }