Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.4.32-hf32.2

[Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>]

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?

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.

> + 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.

Thanks for your hard work,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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