From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ?
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:14:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130802111455.GA29304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FB7DF5.8030600@huawei.com>
* Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> wrote:
> commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba
> Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com>
> Date: Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800
>
> sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval()
>
> Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong
> value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a
> candidate for stable kernel.
>
> The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace
> programs? As the changelog says:
>
> [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a
> slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
It appears to have caused no trouble.
So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-02 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 9:37 stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ? Li Zefan
2013-08-02 11:14 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-08-02 13:57 ` Luis Henriques
2013-08-08 4:08 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-09 0:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 1:08 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-31 20:38 ` Ben Hutchings
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