* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jay Vosburgh 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]> > > applied to #upstream-fixes
This was originally discovered on 2.6.21.5 IIRC, so plan to send this to -stable as well? thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
