Re: CVE request - kernel: bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2011-1581

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- Original Message -----
> Backport of upstream commit:
> fd0e435b0fe85622f167b84432552885a4856ac8 bonding: Incorrect TX queue
> offset
>
> By default bonding only allocates 16 queues. Devices that have more
> than
> 16 receive queues will exceed the tx queue index for the bonding
> device,
> resulting in at least a denial of service (BUG: unable to handle
> kernel
> paging request at...).
>
> For proper queue allocation, in the bonding driver and down to the
> devices, they should probably add the following line to one of the
> files
> in /etc/modprobe.d/
>
> options bonding tx_queues=N
>
> where N>= number of processors that show up in /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696029
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/fd0e435b0fe85622f167b84432552885a4856ac8
>
> Thanks, Eugene
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