netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix race that causes invalid statistics

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Message-ID: <479E6F9C.90902@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:13:16 -0500
From:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
CC:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix race that causes invalid statistics

Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net> wrote:
> 
>> +	memcpy(stats,&local_stats,sizeof(net_device_stats));
> 
> 	FYI, this generates a compiler error (missing the word "struct"
> in here).  Other than not compiling, the patch seems reasonable.  I'll
> fix it up and include it in the series I'll post tomorrow or so.
> 
> 	-J

Looks like Andy sent the draft version by mistake.  We did in fact test an 
otherwise identical patch, which did fix the bug.

	-- Chris
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