pkt_sched: sch_htb: Fix deadlock in hrtimers triggered by HTB
authorJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:06:26 +0000 (14:06 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:36:18 +0000 (16:36 -0800)
commit9befaf375925471a49159d775b38d42c04e218a1
treee0b96c1dca7b11d1a5037286b41b966a7e5b5436
parentb5bc99d15d2e448dd8d3377b986201dec0213555
pkt_sched: sch_htb: Fix deadlock in hrtimers triggered by HTB

[ Upstream commit: none

  This is a quick fix for -stable purposes.  Upstream fixes these
  problems via a large set of invasive hrtimer changes.  ]

Most probably there is a (still unproven) race in hrtimers (before
2.6.29 kernels), which causes a corruption of hrtimers rbtree. This
patch doesn't fix it, but should let HTB avoid triggering the bug.

Reported-by: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Reported-by: Badalian Vyacheslav <slavon@bigtelecom.ru>
Reported-by: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
Tested-by: Badalian Vyacheslav <slavon@bigtelecom.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/sched/sch_htb.c