From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 6 20:47:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06286 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA06266 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA18941; Tue, 7 May 1996 13:20:54 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605070350.NAA18941@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SLIP and memory corruption? To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 13:20:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605070107.TAA02637@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 6, 96 07:07:53 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > I have a couple of questions. 1) has anybody seen this sort of > behavior. 2) Are there fixes since April 15 that have even the > remotest possibility of helping us and 3) where would people recommend > that we look for the problem. We've noticed that there are boatloads > of changes to the slip driver since the 4.4 lite sources, many of > which are related to clist management (a classic recipie for a memory > dancer). There was a bogon discovered in the VJ compression routines in slcompress.c and pppcompress.c that were fixed around then. The current versions are stable : $Id: slcompress.c,v 1.5.4.1 1996/04/11 06:51:53 davidg Exp $ current: $Id: slcompress.c,v 1.7 1996/04/11 06:46:24 davidg Exp $ The bug would have affected both SLIP and kernel ppp. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[