From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>,
davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch for 2.6.24? 1/1] bonding: locking fix
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:01:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16796.1200351673@death> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080114144754.29a448ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
[...]
>That's bond_lock.
>
>This patch (below) addresses what appears to me to be an obvious
>imbalance in rtnl_lock.
>
>I don't care how it's fixed, really. Someone please fix it?
I posted a correct patch for this a few days ago:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119975746803886&w=2
The correct fix requires more than simply removing the rtnl calls.
I've got a few other patches in the pipeline, so I'm planning to
repost the set the above patch was a part of plus a few others, most
likely tomorrow.
-J
---
-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-14 23:01 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200801140904.m0E94vJd020425@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801142313350.26034@bizon.gios.gov.pl>
2008-01-14 22:47 ` [patch for 2.6.24? 1/1] bonding: locking fix Andrew Morton
2008-01-14 23:01 ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2008-01-17 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-18 0:26 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-18 0:58 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-01-18 1:45 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-18 8:34 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-01-18 17:32 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-21 0:57 ` David Miller
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