Re: libata: Fix a potential race condition in ata_scsi_park_show()

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Elias Oltmanns wrote:
>>> Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>> Elias Oltmanns wrote:
>>>>> Peter Moulder has pointed out that there is a slight chance that a
>>>>> negative value might be passed to jiffies_to_msecs() in
>>>>> ata_scsi_park_show(). This is fixed by saving the value of jiffies
>>>>> in a
>>>>> local variable, thus also reducing code since the volatile variable
>>>>> jiffies is accessed only once.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
>>>> added to #tj-upstream.  Thanks.
>>> Has this branch been pulled in yet? My patch, for one, is not even in
>>> linux-next even though it had been intended for 2.6.28 at the time.
>>
>> Jeff, have you pulled it or taken patches from it?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> I sent an email a couple days ago, asking what was pending (or thought I
> did...).  I haven't pulled from #tj-upstream but I ack'd a big patchset
> that I assume is included in there.

Eh... those are different ones.  #tj-upstream contained patches
scheduled for 2.6.28 (mostly fixes and stuff which were around for quite
some time).  I'll resend the patchset.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun