[ewg] Re: IB/ipoib: Fix CM connection premature destruction

Eli Cohen eli at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu May 29 08:14:51 PDT 2008


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Eli Cohen <eli at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> >From 24e88d727dbbb7fd491edb57416f5cb0d4009f1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eli Cohen <eli at mellanox.co.il>
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:13:25 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: Fix CM connection premature destruction
>
> Destroy the CM connection at ipoib_cm_tx_destroy() after the TX
> queue is flushed. Failure to do so might cause the cm_id to be
> allocated again pending TX completions which have not been reported
> yet will move the connection to the reap list again causing it to
> be destroyed before it has been used. The overall effect would be
> to delay the creation of a new connection.

Thinking it over there's no bug there that I can identify. Please
ignore this patch.



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