linux-kernel - Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

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Message-ID: <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:02 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>,
	Chad Tindel <ctindel@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 	The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger
> <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>) 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@...ibm.com>
	
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.
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