netdev - Re: oops during unregister_netdevice interface enslaved to bond

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 12:25:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ELELUECK@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Frank.Blaschka@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: oops during unregister_netdevice interface enslaved to bond -
 regression

From: Einar EL Lueck <ELELUECK@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:17:09 +0200

> Calls to the *_many functions introduced by Octavian may never interleave
> because
> the traversed lists modify each other. This was the root cause for the
> symptom that Frank discovered. Octavian is not a valid mail recipient
> anymore and did not react from any new mail address. I suggest to revert
> the commit.

I don't think a pure-revert is appropriate in this case, the regression
that will introduce is almost as serious as the OOPS here.

Someone just needs to work on a fix.
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