From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [stable] [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex_lock
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:56:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217195620.GA25375@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081217194855.GA11188@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 07:48:56PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> 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.
It's already queued up for the 2.6.27.10 release to be happening
tomorrow :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 19:59 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 ` [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex_lock Russell King
2008-12-17 19:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
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