Re: loopback network device

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:05:14AM +0200, Rabeeh Khoury wrote:

> I'm running kernel 2.4-test9 , when I run the command ./ifup ifcfg-lo
> (bringing lo network device up) the kernel explodes in paging fault
> error message !!!!!
> 
> Did any one encounter such a problem ?
> 
> Another remark - in arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c the line -
> 
> if(unaligned_instructions % 1024)
> 
> should be
> 
> if(!(unaligned_instructions % 1024))

What source tree are you looking at?  I don't have such code in my tree.

It seems to be a bad idea to emit messages at that speed, though;  this
feature can be abused for a local DoS attack.

  Ralf