From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:14 -0400
> Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 > > Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) removes use after free conditions in > >> the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an > >> operation of the form "echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters" > >> would trigger a NULL pointer dereference in sysfs. I was not able to > >> induce the failure with the non-sysfs code path, but for consistency I > >> updated that code as well. > >> > >> I also did some testing of the bonding /proc file being open > >> while the bond is being deleted, and didn't see any problems there. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hey David, this patch fixes one of the bugs listed in 2.6.22-rc5 > > list. Jay submitted last week but it hasn't made it upstream. > > Get him to forward it to me, like he does for other bonding patches... Yes, this patch definitely should go via Jeff, he handles merging the bonding bits. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
