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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix off-by-one in __iterator_load_balance
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:02:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312100205.GA30095@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B8D730.4030708@davidnewall.com>


* David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:

> David Newall wrote:
> > An off-by-one bug in __iterator_load_balance causes it to erroneously
> > return NULL if the next task on the list is also the last entry in the
> > list.  This patch corrects that fault.
> >   
> 
> Patch withdrawn.  Who'd have thought 2.6.27.19 was so out of date?

Yeah, the 2.6.27 -> latest-sched-devel distance is more than 250 
commits already - that's a lot of commits for the scheduler 
which is only 15 KLOC. Patches done on .27 are unlikely to apply 
- and bugs are often fixed already.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11 14:49 [PATCH] fix off-by-one in __iterator_load_balance David Newall
2009-03-12  9:34 ` David Newall
2009-03-12 10:02   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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