From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
To: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 05/22] : Fix hotplug race during device registration
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:19:02 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4448DBC6.2090700@ums.usu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421125329.4210.qmail@web52910.mail.yahoo.com>
Chris Rankin wrote:
> With reference to this patch:
> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blobdiff;h=2731570eba5b35a21c311dd587057c39805082f1;hp=dfb62998866ae2e298139164a85ec0757b7f3fc7;hb=9469d458b90bfb9117cbb488cfa645d94c3921b1;f=net/core/dev.c
>
> Doesn't this patch introduce another bug when registration fails, because reg_state is left as
> NETREG_REGISTERED?
This could be fixed up by saving the old value and restoring it in the "if
(err)" statement, but I guess this has to be fixed in the mainline before
allowing the modified "if (err)" into -stable.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 12:53 [patch 05/22] : Fix hotplug race during device registration Chris Rankin
2006-04-21 13:19 ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2006-04-21 14:54 ` Chris Rankin
2006-04-21 13:21 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-04-21 13:52 ` Chris Rankin
2006-04-21 17:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
[not found] <20060421043353.602539000@blue.kroah.org>
2006-04-21 4:37 ` [patch 00/22] 2.6.16-stable review cycle Greg KH
2006-04-21 4:37 ` [patch 05/22] : Fix hotplug race during device registration Greg KH
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