From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>,
Chad Tindel <ctindel@users.sourceforge.net>,
Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467817CE.80904@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700
> Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger
>> <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>) 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 <fubar@us.ibm.com>
>
> 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...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-11 5:40 [BUG][PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name allocation Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-11 15:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-11 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-14 1:33 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-14 15:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-14 8:17 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-14 15:58 ` [PATCH] " Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-13 9:45 ` Dan Aloni
2007-06-13 16:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-14 6:07 ` Dan Aloni
2007-06-13 22:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-14 4:36 ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-06-19 15:23 ` Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-19 17:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-19 18:12 ` [PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path Jay Vosburgh
2007-06-20 23:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-21 0:09 ` Chris Wright
2007-06-19 22:04 ` Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? David Miller
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