On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 13:47 +0800, hejianet wrote: > Hi, > I got a unix socket soft lockup issue in rhel 6.7(kernel 2.6.32+) ppc64. > And found that commit > 60bc851 could fix this bug by git bisect. Please got the details at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238062 > > commit 60bc851ae59bfe99be6ee89d6bc50008c85ec75d > Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed May 1 05:24:03 2013 +0000 > > af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields > > What's more I found this patch hadn't been included into kernel stable > tree from 2.6.32 to 3.8. > If this patch was not included, in powerpc/sparc, kernel will report > soft lockup when doing > unix socket recv/sendmsg in some cases. Queued up for 3.2, thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.
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