Bug 430580

Summary: [RHEL5] read-vs-read initialization race for /proc/net/dev
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Chris Snook <csnook>
Component: kernelAssignee: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.1CC: agospoda, peterm, tao
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Fixed In Version: 5.2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Comment 1 Chris Snook 2008-01-28 21:03:55 UTC
Fix needs to go upstream too.

Comment 2 Andy Gospodarek 2008-01-30 15:55:59 UTC
My test kernels have been updated to include a patch for this bugzilla.

http://people.redhat.com/agospoda/#rhel5

Please test them and report back your results.

Comment 3 Andy Gospodarek 2008-02-05 21:04:50 UTC
A patch that includes this fix has been posted to rhkl:

http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhkernel-list/2008-February/msg00094.html