Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-19T15:29:34Z

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.