[Openswan dev] 2.6.24rc3 KLIPS Module compilation problem

[Sven Schiwek]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Harald Jenny wrote:
> 
>> the thing you saw with netstat is a problem of the new NAT-T code -
>> will look with David into this problem (David, seems like we need to
>> provide another ioctl IPSEC_UDP_ENCAP_REVERT which clears encap_type
>> and encap_rcv), the kernel panic you experienced was introduced
>> between 2.6.24r1 and 2.6.24r2, so if you need unloading and do not
>> depend on the fixes in later versions better stick with 2.6.24r1 for now.
> 
> We need to REVERT sockets? Isn't closing them and making them go away good
> enough? I would say that's a kernel bug then, where the kernel remembers
> too much state.
> 
> thanks for the hint on the kernel panic. It will decrease my git-bisect
> time
> quite a bit :)
>

Nice to see that I could help. If you have a patch or need some more
information please let me know. I'm testing 2.6.24rc3 on one of our
testing machines here so I get no problems when the system crashes :-)

Cheers,
Sven