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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:04:33 -0600
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@sneakerz.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.5 syncache problem
Message-ID:  <20020214100433.A58903@sneakerz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020214155945.GB422@shade.nectar.cc>; from nectar@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:59:46AM -0600
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0202141402280.20567-100000@polchat.pl> <20020214073111.C26590@sneakerz.org> <20020214073707.D26590@sneakerz.org> <20020214155945.GB422@shade.nectar.cc>

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Jacques A. Vidrine (nectar@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:37:07AM -0600, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > Maxime Henrion (mux@sneakerz.org) wrote:
> > > kurnik@kurnik.pl (kurnik@kurnik.pl) wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to migrate my Linux powered server to FreeBSD 4.5 but there's
> > > > a critical syncache related bug that makes it easy to remotely cause
> > > > kernel panic on any server running FreeBSD 4.5. 
> > > > (more on this bug at www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/34658)
> > > 
> > > Could you probide a way to reliable reproduce it ?  I'm sure this would
> > > help a lot getting this bug fixed, since it's not mentioned in the PR.
> > 
> > Please discard my mail, it really looks like this is fixed in rev1.11 of
> > tcp_syncache.c.
> 
> Hello Maxime,
> 
> Can you confirm:
> After applying rev 1.11 of tcp_syncache.c to your 4.5-RELEASE system,
> your issue was resolved?
> 
> I'd like to MFC this revision, but I wanted to be sure that it worked
> for you on a real system.

Sorry for the confusion, but I was replying to myself here :-)  The person
who experienced the syncache panic is kurnik@kurnik.pl.

Maxime Henrion

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