From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] br: fix race on bridge del if Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20051012.151014.12946945.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050818214036.GH10593@us.ibm.com> <20051011133328.26db65d7@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ryanh@us.ibm.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, chrisw@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com Return-path: To: shemminger@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20051011133328.26db65d7@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:33:28 -0700 > This fixes the RCU race on bridge delete interface. Basically, > the network device has to be detached from the bridge in the first > step (pre-RCU), rather than later. At that point, no more bridge traffic > will come in, and the other code will not think that network device > is part of a bridge. > > This should also fix the XEN test problems. If there is another > 2.6.13-stable, add it as well. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied, thanks Stephen.