From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760420AbYBRNCL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:02:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760524AbYBRNAz (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:55 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:44733 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760519AbYBRNAx (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:58:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Greg KH Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Frans Pop , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Stable Team Subject: Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes Message-Id: <20080218045856.745e42b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080214214542.GA19445@kroah.com> References: <20080214212643.GA18521@kroah.com> <20080214214542.GA19445@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:45:42 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Linus, > > > > > > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > > > > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master > > > > > > > > The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing > > > > checks in the relative to absolute time conversion in the futex > > > > code. It got caught by the WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event(). > > > > > > > > The second patch prevents a false positive of the same WARN_ON(). > > > > > > > > Fixes are confirmed to solve http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/137 > > > > > > Are one of these needed in the stable tree? > > > > Yes, both are for stable as well. The report was against 2.6.24 stable > > Cool. But the stable team deals with individual patches, not git pulls. > Can you send us the individual patches when they hit Linus's tree? > Confused. That assertion appears to conflict with your earlier "you can just add a: Cc: stable to the signed-off-by area, and we (the stable tree developers) will get an automated email when it goes into Linus's tree, with the git changelog entry."