[PATCH] bonding: UPDATED hash-table corruption in bond_alb.c

I believe I see the race Michael refers to (tlb_choose_channel
may set head, which tlb_init_slave clears), although I was not able to
reproduce it. I have updated his patch for the current netdev-2.6.git
tree and added a version update. His original comment follows:

Our systems have been crashing during testing of PCI HotPlug
support in the various networking components. We've faulted in
the bonding driver due to a bug in bond_alb.c:tlb_clear_slave()

In that routine, the last modification to the TLB hash table is
made without protection of the lock, allowing a race that can lead
tlb_choose_channel() to select an invalid table element.

-J

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>

drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c

···
 		index = next_index;
 	}
 
-	_unlock_tx_hashtbl(bond);
-
 	tlb_init_slave(slave);
+
+	_unlock_tx_hashtbl(bond);
 }
 
 /* Must be called before starting the monitor timer */

drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h

···
 #include "bond_3ad.h"
 #include "bond_alb.h"
 
-#define DRV_VERSION	"3.0.0"
-#define DRV_RELDATE	"November 8, 2005"
+#define DRV_VERSION	"3.0.1"
+#define DRV_RELDATE	"January 9, 2006"
 #define DRV_NAME	"bonding"
 #define DRV_DESCRIPTION	"Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver"