Re: [PATCH 1/1] kvm: fix circular locking dependency

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:57:31AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 10:52 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
>>     
>>> * Mark McLoughlin (markmc@redhat.com) wrote:
>>>       
>>>> kvm->slots_lock is outer to kvm->lock, so take slots_lock
>>>> in kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() before taking kvm->lock,
>>>> rather than taking it in kvm_iommu_map_memslots().
>>>>         

Applied, but,

>>> stable?  maint/2.6.29?
>>>       
>> Yep, my bad - Avi, please add:
>>
>> Cc: stable@kernel.org
>>
>> and pull into maint/2.6.29
>>     
>
> ACK.
>
>   

At this point in maint/2.6.29's lifetime, it gets updated by pulling 
from Linus, and stable is only updated after Linus is updated.

(It's the same rule, really -- only commit to a maintenance branch after 
upstream has been fixed, to ensure we don't have a maint fix without a 
corresponding upstream fix)

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