[PATCH 0/7] bonding: 7 fixes for 2.6.24

[Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>]

	Following are seven patches to fix locking problems,
silence locking-related warnings and resolve one recent regression
in the current 2.6.24-rc.

	The first three patches are reposts, the rest are new.

	patch 1: fix locking in sysfs primary/active selection

	Call core network functions with expected locks to
eliminate potential deadlock and silence warnings.

	patch 2: fix ASSERT_RTNL that produces spurious warnings

	Relocate ASSERT_RTNL to remove a false warning; after patch,
ASSERT is located in code that holds only RTNL (additional locks were
causing the ASSERT to trip)

	patch 3: fix locking during alb failover and slave removal

	Fix all call paths into alb_fasten_mac_swap to hold only RTNL.
Eliminates potential deadlock and silences warnings.

	patch 4: release slaves when master removed via sysfs

	Insure that all slaves are removed when bond is destroyed via
sysfs.

	patch 5: Fix up parameter parsing

	Recent changes broke parameter parsing; this fixes things.

	patch 6: Fix lock ordering for rtnl and bonding_rwsem

	Resolves some lockdep warnings related to ordering between
rtnl and bonding_rwsem.

	patch 7: Don't hold lock when calling rtnl_unlock

	Since rtnl_unlock can sleep, don't hold any other locks when
calling it.

	Patches are against the current netdev-2.6#upstream branch.

	Please apply for 2.6.24.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com