From: Sean Hefty
Older kernels have a bug where it can report an event with the
uid set to 0. The librdmacm crashes when casting the uid to
an rdma_cm_id and dereferencing the NULL pointer.
There are a limited number of events where this can occur and
in most cases it's safe to simply discard t
On 02/02/2013 09:16, sean.he...@intel.com wrote:
Older kernels have a bug where it can report an event with the
uid set to 0. The librdmacm crashes when casting the uid to
an rdma_cm_id and dereferencing the NULL pointer.
There are a limited number of events where this can occur and
in most cas
Thanks a lot Sean! Looks good to me, just a few minor nits below.
On 02/02/2013 08:16 AM, sean.he...@intel.com wrote:
From: Sean Hefty
Older kernels have a bug where it can report an event with the
uid set to 0. The librdmacm crashes when casting the uid to
an rdma_cm_id and dereferencing the
On 02/03/2013 08:24 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
On 02/02/2013 09:16, sean.he...@intel.com wrote:
Older kernels have a bug where it can report an event with the
uid set to 0. The librdmacm crashes when casting the uid to
an rdma_cm_id and dereferencing the NULL pointer.
There are a limited number of
I updated the patch based on your feedback and pushed the change into my git
tree.
I plan on creating a new release of the librdmacm this quarter that will
contain this fix.
- Sean
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On 04/02/2013 16:11, Bernd Schubert wrote:
On 02/03/2013 08:24 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
It would be also worthwhile to nail the fix to the root cause little
further, e.g push kernel commit 418edaaba96 to -stable
Agreed, I opened RHEL bugzilla #719749 (somehow marked as private, no
idea why) an
> the mainline kernel -stable process is something else... Sean I assume
> you understood what I was up to.
yes
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