Re: Uploaded 2.0.34pre9

Henrik Edlund (piett@piett.com)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:14:41 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Troels Arvin wrote:

> At 21:19 19-04-98 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Fragment handling bug
> > A bug in fragment handling that could cause a kernel crash has
> > been fixed.
>
> Pre-9 dosn't seem to have the nestea patch? I confirmed this by attacking
> af clean 2.0.33 + the 2.0.34-pre9 patch; the server crashed immediately.
>
> After appying the nestea-patch to pre-9, my server has no problem
> withstanding a nestea-attack.
>
> Apart from that, pre-9 seems good here. There were some compiler-warnings,
> though - see <URL:http://www.studmed.ku.dk:8000/#kernel-compilation>
>
> System-info and more at <URL:http://www.studmed.ku.dk:8000/>

What is the "nestea" patch? It that the "off-by-one" patch?

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