netdev - Re: [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts

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Date:	Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:42:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	manfred@...orfullife.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.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@...orfullife.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied, and I'll queue this up for -stable, thanks Patrick!
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