netdev - Re: [stable] [patch] net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:32:37 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	miklos@...redi.hu, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.bittau@...ucl.ac.uk,
	stable@...nel.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	adobriyan@...il.com
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch] net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in
	garbage collector

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:59:38PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:23:57 +0100
> 
> > This patch fixes the BUG_ON triggered by Andrea's tests.  It turned
> > out to be completely independent of the stack overflow issue, but
> > happens to be triggered by the same test program.
> > 
> > Should qualify for -stable too.
> 
> Miklos thanks a lot for fixing this.  And Linus thanks for
> queueing this up to 2.6.28-rc4
> 
> Stable folks, please include this in -stable as soon as you
> can, since the BUG can be triggered by local users.

Thanks, will do.

greg k-h
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