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From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Dong, Chuanxiao" <chuanxiao.dong@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch "drm/i915/gvt: Fix possible recursive locking issue" has
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:16:01AM +0000, Dong, Chuanxiao wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> This fix is not needed and the issue is actually fixed by below which you just picked for 4.12-stable tree.
> >From 7f56c30bd0a232822aca38d288da475613bdff9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 15:37:38 -0600
> Subject: vfio: Remove unnecessary uses of vfio_container.group_lock
> 
> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> 
> commit 7f56c30bd0a232822aca38d288da475613bdff9b upstream.
> 
> And this patch is already reverted. So please drop this one.

Ok, now dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h