From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751459Ab3HTUAk (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:00:40 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:55203 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069Ab3HTUAi (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:00:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:00:35 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Hugh Dickins , Johannes Berg , Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , lwn@lwn.net Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.92 Message-ID: <20130820200035.GA2524@roeck-us.net> References: <20130820155735.GA2805@kroah.com> <20130820164343.GA3958@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130820164343.GA3958@kroah.com> 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 09:43:43AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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? > Does this patch have to be reverted in 3.10 as well ? Linus' e-mail seems to suggest it, but Shuah didn't see the problem there. I ran a quick test with 3.10.8 on an x86 system and did not see a problem either, at least not immediately. I want to add some networking to my qemu tests, but it would help to know how to catch such errors automatically ... that is, if there is a way to do that. Guenter