[openib-general] Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: Move destructor from neigh->ops to neigh_params

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: Move destructor from neigh->ops to neigh_params
> 
>     Michael> So, how about we implement the all-neigh list work-around
>     Michael> on trunk for now, probably inside #if version < 2.6.17?
> 
> Makes sense.  How serious is this issue?

As far as I rememeber its an OOPs, or data corruption, or resource leak.

> What do you have to do to
> trigger a problem?

AFAIK flushing the arp cache while doing traffic was what did it.

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies