Hello, in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c random characters are printed by svc_tcp_accept: lockd: last TCP connect from <some random chars> because buf is used unitialized: printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: last TCP connect from %s\n", serv->sv_name, buf); Probably it should be printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: last TCP connect from %s\n", serv->sv_name, __svc_print_addr(sin, buf, sizeof(buf))); ============================= --- linux-2.6.22.6/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 2007-08-27 18:10:14.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.22.6w/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 2007-09-03 18:27:30.000000000 +0200 @@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ serv->sv_name); printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: last TCP connect from %s\n", - serv->sv_name, buf); + serv->sv_name, __svc_print_addr(sin, buf, sizeof(buf))); } /* * Always select the oldest socket. It's not fair, =============================== Regards, -- Wolfgang Walter Studentenwerk München Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html