From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751876Ab3HTQnq (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:43:46 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34968 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751441Ab3HTQno (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:43:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:43:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Hugh Dickins , Johannes Berg , Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , lwn@lwn.net, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.92 Message-ID: <20130820164343.GA3958@kroah.com> References: <20130820155735.GA2805@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:33:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Johannes Berg (1): > > genetlink: fix family dump race > > This one turns out to be buggy, see thread called "3.11-rc6 genetlink > locking fix offends lockdep". Yeah, I messed up in keeping it here, I'll go revert it and push out a new 3.0 release. > I really think there should be delay before stable picks up stuff from > mainline, unless it's something particularly critical and > well-discussed.. Maybe a week or so. I can do that, it's just hard to tell from my end what is "well discussed" all the time. > Now it's both in 3.0 and 3.10, so the revert (unless we find a better > fix - and the first two patches have already failed) will have to go > there too. I thought that there was a fix already for this... Ah, no, that was for another reported regression in an older 3.10-stable release, my bad. Johannes, what do you want to do here? Just revert it in Linus's tree for now, given the late -rc cycle? thanks, greg k-h