Re: [patch 0/3] net: Sanitizing hrtimer usage innet/sched/sch_cbq.c

[David Miller]

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:59:18 -0000

> While looking at the "Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195
> ( possibly caused by netem)" issue (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/519)
> I noticed some serious problems in the hrtimer related code of
> net/sched/sched/sch_cbq.c.
> 
> The following patch series addresses these.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure whether patch [1/3] covers all possible
> concurrent modifications, but it fixes the most obvious ones. The
> remaining details are left to the networking experts.
> 
> Patches [1/3] and [2/3] might be stable material as well.

Thanks a lot for these paches Thomas, I'll look at them more
closely.
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