From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932582AbWF2GXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:23:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932590AbWF2GXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:23:16 -0400 Received: from aa001msr.fastwebnet.it ([85.18.95.64]:5785 "EHLO aa001msr.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932582AbWF2GXO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:23:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:23:05 +0200 From: Paolo Ornati To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vs@namesys.com, neilb@suse.de, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Unkillable process in last git -- Bisected Message-ID: <20060629082305.60350874@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060628222036.e4e40bab.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060628142918.1b2c25c3@localhost> <20060628145349.53873ccc@localhost> <20060628150943.78e91871@localhost> <20060628151955.0acdb39a@localhost> <20060628203825.47790a10@localhost> <20060628222036.e4e40bab.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:20:36 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > > The recent generic_file_write() deadlock fix caused > generic_file_buffered_write() to loop inifinitely when presented with a > zero-length iovec segment. Fix. It works for me :) -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.17.1 on x86_64