netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select

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Message-ID: <20090701105852.GA925@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:52 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fbl@...hat.com, nhorman@...hat.com,
	davem@...hat.com, oleg@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:44:30AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> no, only RHEL 4.. 
> 
> it is very hard to reproduce. I was succesfull once
> on RHEL4 after 8 days, never on upstream though.

It would be good to know whether this bug occurs on the upstream
kernel because as it stands, the patch is a no-op for the upstream
kernel on x86-64.

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