From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] bonding: Fix locking in 802.3ad mode
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:18:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E9C07A.1040208@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206163777364-git-send-email-fubar@us.ibm.com>
Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> The 802.3ad state machine lock can be acquired in both softirq and
> not softirq context, but was not held at _bh to prevent a deadlock (which
> could occur if a LACPDU arrived and was processed while the lock was
> held).
>
> Corrected this, now hold the state machine lock at _bh to prevent
> deadlock.
>
> Bug reported by Todd Fleisher <todd@fleish.org>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
applied 1-4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 5:29 [PATCH 0/4] bonding: fixes for 2.6.25 Jay Vosburgh
2008-03-22 5:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] bonding: Fix locking in 802.3ad mode Jay Vosburgh
2008-03-22 5:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] bonding: fix two compiler warnings Jay Vosburgh
2008-03-22 5:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] bonding: Fix sysfs attribute handling Jay Vosburgh
2008-03-22 5:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] bonding: update version Jay Vosburgh
2008-03-26 3:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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