Re: [Qemu-devel] core dump on networking and old pkgsrc patches

[Blue Swirl]

On 7/1/08, Jeremy C. Reed <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is a problem that may already be fixed.

Not yet, even though several people have tried and failed.

>  #0  0x000000000046bfef in tcp_reass (tp=0x7f7ffb238180, ti=0xfb238180,
>  m=0x0)
>     at /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/qemu/work/qemu-0.9.0/slirp/tcp_input.c:207
>  207             if (ti == (struct tcpiphdr *)tp || ti->ti_seq !=
>  tp->rcv_nxt)

SLIRP re-uses some of the 32 bit TCP/IP header fields as storage for
pointers. This works on a 32 bit host and in some lucky cases on a
x86-64.

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