From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400 Message-ID: <467817CE.80904@garzik.org> 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> <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jay Vosburgh , "David S. Miller" , Dan Aloni , Chad Tindel , Kenji Kaneshige , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33846 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755460AbXFSRwm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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... Jeff