Hi Roberto,
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:15:24PM +0100, Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Hi Willy,
>
> >Changelog from 2.4.32-hf32.1 to 2.4.32-hf32.2
>
> Which of those are you going to push to Marcelo for inclusion?
They're all in Marcelo's tree (at least in -git). I try to avoid publishing
patches which can escape from mainline because it's harder to re-include
them afterwards. That's also why one of them got missed in hf32.1.
> I've found two subtle IPVS bugs (using a persistency setup on SMP
> combined with sharp TCP state transition timeouts), one of which is
> fixed in my tree and has been running in production for over 1 month
> now. The other is still in discussion phase with Horms and Julian
> Anastasov.
OK, I hope you'll be able to send the fixes early enough for inclusion
in 2.4.33.
> >+ 2.4.32-bond_alb-hash-table-corruption-1 (ODonnell,
> >Michael)
> >
> > Our systems have been crashing during testing of PCI HotPlug
> > support in the various networking components. We've faulted in
> > the bonding driver due to a bug in bond_alb.c:tlb_clear_slave().
> > In that routine, the last modification to the TLB hash table is
> > made without protection of the lock, allowing a race that can
> > lead tlb_choose_channel() to select an invalid table element.
>
> This is correct. Funny, It never triggered on my systems, but I only
> have a bonding setup on three SMP systems, probably none of them using
> ALB.
I've never used ALB either.
> Thanks for your hard work,
> Roberto Nibali, ratz
Thanks,
Willy
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