From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain> References: <1178862045.3979.33.camel@kane-linux> <20070511092519.1f34ab34@freepuppy> <1179130660.3881.23.camel@kane-linux> <20070514085840.17a343f7@freepuppy> <20070613094521.GA8860@localdomain> <20070613155335.47111c67@localhost> <15712.1181795790@death> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Aloni , Chad Tindel , Kenji Kaneshige , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jay Vosburgh , "David S. Miller" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <15712.1181795790@death> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.