From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Evgeny Budilovsky <budevg@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>,
Lai Siyao <lai.siyao@intel.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/lustre: use rcu_dereference to access rcu protected current->real_parent field
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:42:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140806214216.GA16530@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k36ltoob.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 09:22:43PM +0300, Evgeny Budilovsky wrote:
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> Signed-off-by: Evgeny Budilovsky <budevg@gmail.com>
Why is this needed? Is the current code a bug? Where was the reference
added? Is this causing a problem without this patch applied? How far
back should it be backported, if at all?
I need lots more details here before I can take this patch, sorry.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-06 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 18:22 [PATCH] staging/lustre: use rcu_dereference to access rcu protected current->real_parent field Evgeny Budilovsky
2014-08-06 21:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-08-07 11:13 ` Evgeny Budilovsky
2014-08-08 3:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-08-08 4:03 ` Oleg Drokin
2014-08-08 4:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-08-08 5:06 ` Oleg Drokin
2014-08-08 5:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-08-09 11:05 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-09 14:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-08-09 14:34 ` Oleg Drokin
2014-08-09 15:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-08-12 1:44 ` Oleg Drokin
2014-08-12 2:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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