From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51640 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753254AbbIZRSc (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:18:32 -0400 Subject: Patch "workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree To: tim.gardner@canonical.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tj@kernel.org Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:18:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1443287910184128@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: workqueue-make-flush_workqueue-available-again-to-non-gpl-modules.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 1dadafa86a779884f14a6e7a3ddde1a57b0a0a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Gardner Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:26:04 -0600 Subject: workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules From: Tim Gardner commit 1dadafa86a779884f14a6e7a3ddde1a57b0a0a65 upstream. Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper. Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL function. This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this function and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules. See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ void flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_st out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_workqueue); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_workqueue); /** * drain_workqueue - drain a workqueue Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tim.gardner@canonical.com are queue-4.2/workqueue-make-flush_workqueue-available-again-to-non-gpl-modules.patch