From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex_lock
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:48:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217194855.GA11188@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081213164123.GB7639@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 04:41:23PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Today, having had gthumb running for a while, I hit ^c expecting it to
> quit. The result was a process with zero VSZ and RSS, and it sitting
> in run state. Only possible recovery action seems to be a reboot.
Al Viro looked into this, and suggested that 711a49a might fix the
problem. I've just tested this on top of 2.6.27.8, and it does
indeed appear to fix the problem. Suggest it should be included
in the next stable kernel.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-13 16:41 [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex_lock Russell King
2008-12-13 16:47 ` [BUG] 2.6.27.8: Reboot fails after previous (^c on gthumb) bug Russell King
2008-12-17 19:48 ` Russell King [this message]
2008-12-17 19:56 ` [stable] [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex_lock Greg KH
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