linux-kernel - Re: Asterisk deadlocks since Kernel 4.1

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Date:	Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:08:19 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Asterisk deadlocks since Kernel 4.1

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 07:26:12PM +0100, Stefan Priebe wrote:
>
> * 9f87e0c - (2 months ago) netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound
> - Herbert Xu
> * 35e9890 - (3 months ago) netlink: Fix autobind race condition that
> leads to zero port ID - Herbert Xu
> * 30c6472 - (7 months ago) netlink: Use random autobind rover - Herbert Xu

These three patches are absolutely required in any kernel where the
netlink insertion is lockless.  So yes they should be applied to
4.1.

Thanks,
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