Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.4.32-hf32.2

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

Hi Roberto,

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:15:24PM +0100, Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Hi Willy,
> 
> >Changelog from 2.4.32-hf32.1 to 2.4.32-hf32.2
> 
> Which of those are you going to push to Marcelo for inclusion?

They're all in Marcelo's tree (at least in -git). I try to avoid publishing
patches which can escape from mainline because it's harder to re-include
them afterwards. That's also why one of them got missed in hf32.1.

> I've found two subtle IPVS bugs (using a persistency setup on SMP 
> combined with sharp TCP state transition timeouts), one of which is 
> fixed in my tree and has been running in production for over 1 month 
> now. The other is still in discussion phase with Horms and Julian 
> Anastasov.

OK, I hope you'll be able to send the fixes early enough for inclusion
in 2.4.33.

> >+ 2.4.32-bond_alb-hash-table-corruption-1                (ODonnell, 
> >Michael)
> >
> >  Our systems have been crashing during testing of PCI HotPlug
> >  support in the various networking components. We've faulted in
> >  the bonding driver due to a bug in bond_alb.c:tlb_clear_slave().
> >  In that routine, the last modification to the TLB hash table is
> >  made without protection of the lock, allowing a race that can
> >  lead tlb_choose_channel() to select an invalid table element.
> 
> This is correct. Funny, It never triggered on my systems, but I only 
> have a bonding setup on three SMP systems, probably none of them using 
> ALB.

I've never used ALB either.

> Thanks for your hard work,
> Roberto Nibali, ratz

Thanks,
Willy