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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:36:30 -0700 Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>) 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 <fubar@us.ibm.com> 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/ | ||||||||||||
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