linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][v3.2.y] inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along with the routing cache

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Message-ID: <1377986658.21578.5.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:04:18 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v3.2.y]  inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along
 with the routing cache

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 13:34 -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please consider including mainline commit 5faa5df in the next v3.2.y
> release.  It was included in the mainline tree as of v3.3-rc7.  It has
> been tested and confirmed to resolve
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205741 .
> 
> 
> commit 5faa5df1fa2024bd750089ff21dcc4191798263d
> Author: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> Date:   Tue Mar 6 21:20:26 2012 +0000
> 
>     inetpeer: Invalidate the inetpeer tree along with the routing cache
> 
> 
> Also note that commit 5faa5df introduced a race condition that is fixed
> by mainline commit 55432d2, so that commit would also be required:
> 
> commit 55432d2b543a4b6dfae54f5c432a566877a85d90
> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 5 03:00:18 2012 +0000
> 
>     inetpeer: fix a race in inetpeer_gc_worker()

David, could you ack/nak these for 3.2 (maybe 3.0 as well?).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.

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