Subject: kern/2819: NetBSD 1.2 panic: m_copym
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <felix@simplex.nl>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/08/1996 15:20:13
>Number: 2819
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: kernel panic on traceroute with strange packet size
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 8 06:35:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Felix A. Croes
>Organization:
>Release: 1.2
>Environment:
NetBSD 1.2 i386, 486DX40, 20Mb of memory
kernel compiled with gcc 2.7.2.1 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
Internet link through PPP 28k8, ordinary packet size 1500
System: NetBSD dworkin 1.2 NetBSD 1.2 (DWORKIN) #2: Sun Oct 6 19:55:17 MET DST 1996 felix@dworkin:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DWORKIN i386
>Description:
Specifying a strange packet size will crash the kernel with
panic: m_copym
>How-To-Repeat:
traceroute somehost 2023
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: