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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:25:51 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netlink: netlink_recvmsg() fix

On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 22:37 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:13:53 +0200
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 16:48 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> >> I assume reverting 1235f504aaba removes these errors ?
> > 
> > I haven't tried yet, but it only happened very recently and I didn't
> > find any other candidate -- the error always points to
> > wireless_send_event too.
> 
> Please test with the commit reverted and let us know if it helps.
> 
> The current situation is worse than what we were trying to fix
> in that commit, so if a revert fixes your problem then as Eric
> said we should do that first.

I haven't gotten around to it, but Kalle had been running into the same
issue and said reverting it fixed it:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/54492

johannes

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