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

David Miller
2007-06-19T22:04:29Z

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400

> 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...

Yes, this patch definitely should go via Jeff, he handles merging the
bonding bits.