Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759150AbXFSP3e (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753031AbXFSP3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:20 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:53665 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753685AbXFSP3S (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:02 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Jay Vosburgh , "David S. Miller" Cc: Dan Aloni , Chad Tindel , Kenji Kaneshige , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Why is this patch not in 2.6.22-rc5? Message-ID: <20070619082302.4b9a5c27@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <15712.1181795790@death> References: <1178862045.3979.33.camel@kane-linux> <20070511092519.1f34ab34@freepuppy> <1179130660.3881.23.camel@kane-linux> <20070514085840.17a343f7@freepuppy> <20070613094521.GA8860@localdomain> <20070613155335.47111c67@localhost> <15712.1181795790@death> Organization: Linux Foundation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 24 On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 Jay Vosburgh wrote: > > The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > ) 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 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/