[Users] Kernel panic in nf_conntrack_ipv6 IPv6 Firewall 2.6.27-aivazovsky

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> Just a warning.
>
>        I've just run into a kernel panic in nf_conntrack_ipv6 in
> 2.6.27-aivazovsky, that just came out.  Filed in bugzilla, bug #1151.
> Present on both an i686 and an AMD64 x86_64.  If you have the IPv6
> firewall enabled with contracking, it's going to blow chunks as soon as
> you hit it with IPv6 traffic.  Hard crash.  Kills the interrupt handler
> and you're done.  No keyboard response and requires a hard reset or
> power cycle.
>
>        Mike

BTW, There is an update for this:

http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.27-openvz;a=commit;h=a12d99dfea46c8d2facbec569a2f177e03ae881a

John