[Openswan Users] 2.4.12 crash with kernel 2.4.36.2

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Thu Mar 27 15:58:33 EDT 2008


On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:

> Thanks to Sergei Litvinenko I found that there is no crash without
> compression.

Ah yes. That bug has still escaped us so far :(
If you can test previous versions and find a version where this bug
does not occur, it would greatly help us zoom in on the bug.

> I thought that there were changes in zutil.c, because I took it from
> 2.4.9, but I looked into git tree and looks like there are no changes.
> Is it kernel bug or openswan bug? I'll try 2.4.12 with 2.4.35, just
> because I use openswan 2.4.9 with 2.4.35 in production and it works,
> main problem is memory leaks :-)

A bunch of memory leak fixes went into 2.5.x. Either backport them or
try out 2.5.x.

Paul


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