Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? |
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Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 > Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >> The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger >> <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>) removes use after free conditions in >> the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an >> operation of the form "echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters" >> would trigger a NULL pointer dereference in sysfs. I was not able to >> induce the failure with the non-sysfs code path, but for consistency I >> updated that code as well. >> >> I also did some testing of the bonding /proc file being open >> while the bond is being deleted, and didn't see any problems there. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> > > Hey David, this patch fixes one of the bugs listed in 2.6.22-rc5 > list. Jay submitted last week but it hasn't made it upstream.
Get him to forward it to me, like he does for other bonding patches...
Jeff
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