[PATCH] Fix oops in sunrpc on hardy

[HIRANO Takahito]

FYI, the patch was rejected in kernel.org by Greg K-H:
>  The 2.6.24.y kernel tree is pretty much "closed" now, we don't want to
>  do any more releases of it, so I'm not going to add this to any queue,
>  sorry.

2008/5/3 HIRANO Takahito <hiranotaka at zng.info>:
> I lost some mails from Tim (maybe my MTA sucks...), so I'm replying to myself.
>
>  I sent the patch to stable at kernel.org,
>  but I don't think it will be accepted because the maintenance of
>  2.6.24.y has finished.
>
>  Thanks,
>  HIRANO Takahito
>
>  2008/5/2 HIRANO Takahito <hiranotaka at zng.info>:
>
>
> > Hello,
>  >
>  >  The rpcb_getport_async function in the sunrpc module copies larger
>  >  memory area than the allocated on Ubuntu Hardy.
>  >  Because of this problem, NFS users might encounter oops. See Bug #224750.
>  >
>  >  This bug is derived from Linux 2.6.24 in kernel.org.
>  >  It seems to be fixed on Linux 2.6.25 in kernel.org by the commit
>  >  86d61d8638ddf9cdf87df26c7fa69b2804425fbe.
>  >
>  >  I don't know how important it is for Ubuntu users, but I made the
>  >  patch to solve it, which is the attachment.
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  HIRANO Takahito
>  >  hiranotaka at zng.info
>  >
>


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HIRANO Takahito
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