[Openswan Users] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000025

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Jorge Davila wrote:

> While trying to setup communication between two VPN servers I received this error from an opensuse 11.1. I'm guessing
> that because of this error pluto does not run.

> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000025
> IP: [<c02f9926>] netlink_dump_start+0x42/0x11d

>  [<f9583555>] xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x6b/0xd2 [xfrm_user]
>  [<c02fab74>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x2d/0x75
>  [<f9581d57>] xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x19/0x24 [xfrm_user]
>  [<c02fa6b1>] netlink_unicast+0x1a8/0x20b
>  [<c02fa972>] netlink_sendmsg+0x25e/0x26a
>  [<c02dadc1>] sock_sendmsg+0xc9/0xe4
>  [<c02db7ab>] sys_sendto+0xf9/0x124
>  [<c02db80d>] sys_send+0x37/0x3b
>  [<c02dc15b>] sys_socketcall+0x148/0x290
>  [<c0104a0d>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x21
>  [<ffffe430>] 0xffffe430
>  =======================

That's the XFRM/NETKEY code from the kernel. Report it to your vendor if there
is no kernel upgrade available. It's not our code.

Paul