Re: [andrewg@tasmail.com: remote memory reading through tcp/icmp]

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 21:43:18 EST


   From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
   Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 03:12:11 +0100

   On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:52:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> - icmp_param.offset=skb_in->nh.raw - skb_in->data;
> + icmp_param.offset=skb_in->data - skb_in->nh.raw;
   
    With this fix, I'm seeing lots of really strange things happen.
    When eth0 comes up, the box slows down to a crawl.
    5 minutes later when it gets to starting NIS, the
    broadcast address is bombed with portmap connections.

Andi?
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