Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

[Jeff Garzik]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700
> Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 	The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger
> > <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 	
> 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



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