linux-kernel - RE: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.25

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Message-ID: <000001c859f9$7bc7f590$ff0da8c0@amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:42:23 -0800
From:	"Sean Hefty" <sean.hefty@...el.com>
To:	"'Hal Rosenstock'" <hrosenstock@...go.com>,
	"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <general@...ts.openfabrics.org>
Subject: RE: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.25

>> Sean Hefty (6):
>>       IB/mad: Fix incorrect access to items on local_list
>
>It wasn't clear to me that this issue was ever really nailed. Was the
>loop on this closed ?

The error that this patches addresses is fairly obvious if you inspect the code.
There's a strong chance that the patch fixes the bug that was reported, but the
last I remember, they had trouble reproducing the crash to see if the patch
would indeed make it go away.

- Sean

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