Bug#592187: [stable] Bug#576838: virtio network crashes again

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:37:34AM +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> Hi Ben, Greg,
> 
> I was finally able to identify the patch series that introduced the fix
> (they were introduced to -stable in 2.6.33.2):
> 
> cb63112 net: add __must_check to sk_add_backlog
> a12a9a2 net: backlog functions rename
> 51c5db4 x25: use limited socket backlog
> c531ab2 tipc: use limited socket backlog
> 37d60aa sctp: use limited socket backlog
> 9b3d968 llc: use limited socket backlog
> 230401e udp: use limited socket backlog
> 20a92ec tcp: use limited socket backlog
> ab9dd05 net: add limit for socket backlog
> 
> After applying these to 2.6.32.17, I wasn't able to trigger the failure
> anymore.

What "failure"?

> 230401e didn't apply cleanly with git cherry-pick on top of 2.6.32.17,
> so there might be some additional work needed.
> 
> @Greg: would it be possible to have these fixes in the next 2.6.32? See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592187#69 for details:
> they fix a guest network crash during heavy nfs-io using virtio.

These are a lot of patches, looking like they are adding a new feature.
I would need to get the ack of the network maintainer before I can add
them.

David?

thanks,

greg k-h