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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: miklos@szeredi•hu, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, a.bittau@cs•ucl.ac.uk,
	stable@kernel•org, viro@ZenIV•linux.org.uk,
	akpm@linux-foundation•org, torvalds@linux-foundation•org,
	adobriyan@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch] net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:32:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111073237.GA13973@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110.225938.79412569.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:59:38PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi•hu>
> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:23:57 +0100
> 
> > This patch fixes the BUG_ON triggered by Andrea's tests.  It turned
> > out to be completely independent of the stack overflow issue, but
> > happens to be triggered by the same test program.
> > 
> > Should qualify for -stable too.
> 
> Miklos thanks a lot for fixing this.  And Linus thanks for
> queueing this up to 2.6.28-rc4
> 
> Stable folks, please include this in -stable as soon as you
> can, since the BUG can be triggered by local users.

Thanks, will do.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-09 14:23 [patch] net: unix: fix inflight counting bug in garbage collector Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-11  6:59 ` David Miller
2008-11-11  7:32   ` Greg KH [this message]

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