[Openswan dev] IPComp

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Sat Jul 3 14:02:56 CEST 2004


On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:

> > He mailed me the barfs seperately. the key line is:
> > 
> > Jul  2 15:57:30 vin pluto[29579]: "BRU" #3: ERROR: netlink response for Add SA comp.661a at hhh.hhh.hhh.158 included errno 12: Cannot allocate memory
> > Jul  2 15:57:30 vin pluto[29579]: "BRU" #4: ERROR: netlink response for Add SA comp.661a at hhh.hhh.hhh.158 included errno 12: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> These indicate that a kmalloc in the path of adding IPCOMP SAs failed.
> 
> Hmm, there is a 64K kmalloc in ipcomp_init_state.  That's the most likely
> culprit.  What does cat /proc/slabinfo show?

That information is not listed in the barf.
 
> It'd also be nice to know exactly what kernel version he is using.

2.6.5 

He seems to have generic memory problems though, so I don't think this is an 
openswan or kernel ipsec bug.

Paul
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