netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix compat recvmsg

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Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:36:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kalle.valo@....fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix compat recvmsg

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:50:25 +0200

> Le lundi 16 août 2010 à 09:20 +0200, Johannes Berg a écrit :
>> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
>> 
>> Since
>> commit 1dacc76d0014a034b8aca14237c127d7c19d7726
>> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
>> Date:   Wed Jul 1 11:26:02 2009 +0000
>> 
>>     net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks
>> 
>> we had a race condition when setting and then
>> restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it,
>> but the fix created even worse problems.
 ...
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
 ...
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks guys!
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