From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070619.150437.38693228.davem@davemloft.net> References: <15712.1181795790@death> <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain> <467817CE.80904@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, da-x@monatomic.org, ctindel@users.sourceforge.net, kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: jeff@garzik.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41808 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465AbXFSWET (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:04:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <467817CE.80904@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400 > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 > > Jay Vosburgh wrote: > > > >> The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > >> ) removes use after free conditions in > >> the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an > >> operation of the form "echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters" > >> would trigger a NULL pointer dereference in sysfs. I was not able to > >> induce the failure with the non-sysfs code path, but for consistency I > >> updated that code as well. > >> > >> I also did some testing of the bonding /proc file being open > >> while the bond is being deleted, and didn't see any problems there. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh > > > > Hey David, this patch fixes one of the bugs listed in 2.6.22-rc5 > > list. Jay submitted last week but it hasn't made it upstream. > > Get him to forward it to me, like he does for other bonding patches... Yes, this patch definitely should go via Jeff, he handles merging the bonding bits.