From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:42:29 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107.024229.248193373.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472DF8E8.2030204@trash.net>
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:52:56 +0100
> [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts
>
> Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast timeouts by
> moving the schedule_timeout() call to a new function that doesn't propagate
> the remaining timeout back to the caller. This means on each retry we start
> with the full timeout again.
>
> ipc/mqueue.c seems to actually want to wait indefinitely so this behaviour
> is retained.
>
> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Applied, and I'll queue this up for -stable, thanks Patrick!
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2007-11-04 16:52 [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts Patrick McHardy
2007-11-07 10:42 ` David Miller [this message]
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