From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-rng: Remove false BUG for spurious callbacks
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:30:36 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904262230.37157.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904240822410.3101@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:53:12 am Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> >
> > The virtio-rng drivers checks for spurious callbacks. Since
> > callbacks can be implemented via shared interrupts (e.g. PCI) this
> > could lead to guest kernel oopses with lots of virtio devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> > ---
>
> I really would have liked a sign-off from you too, rusty. I'll take it
> as-is, since it's trivial, but just a note..
Sorry, missed that one.
Thanks for the reminder,
Rusty.
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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-rng: Remove false BUG for spurious callbacks
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:30:36 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904262230.37157.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904240822410.3101@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:53:12 am Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> >
> > The virtio-rng drivers checks for spurious callbacks. Since
> > callbacks can be implemented via shared interrupts (e.g. PCI) this
> > could lead to guest kernel oopses with lots of virtio devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> > ---
>
> I really would have liked a sign-off from you too, rusty. I'll take it
> as-is, since it's trivial, but just a note..
Sorry, missed that one.
Thanks for the reminder,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-26 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 7:12 [PATCH] virtio-rng: Remove false BUG for spurious callbacks Rusty Russell
2009-04-24 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-24 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-26 13:00 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-04-26 13:00 ` Rusty Russell
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2009-04-23 7:12 Rusty Russell
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