Re: [BK PATCH] Fix ip_conntrack_amanda data corruption bug that breaks amanda dumps

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:04:27 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Nov 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > His patch isn't correct, even making a temporary change to
> > a shared SKB is illegal.
> 
> So the original ip_conntrack_amanda was already illegal. If only such
> nonsense caused heavy kernel logging (let it oops or GPF or whatver),
> that's a much quicker way to pinpoint the bug than run amanda with a
> special devnull configuration some dozen times.

The original ip_conntrack_amanda was correct before
my skb_header_pointer() changes.  Patrick's patch, which
I'll of course apply, simply reverted those changes back
to the original code which uses the amanda_buffer for
the UDP control stream always.
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