Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

Jeff Garzik
2007-06-19T17:52:53Z

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