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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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
Subject: Re: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5?
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
Get him to forward it to me, like he does for other bonding patches...
Jeff
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