From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934285AbbA1CZF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:25:05 -0500 Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:45175 "EHLO mail-qa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934257AbbA1CZA (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:25:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:24:56 -0500 From: Tejun Heo To: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen , Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 11/61] workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool Message-ID: <20150128022456.GF12314@htj.dyndns.org> References: <20150128012636.936333725@linuxfoundation.org> <20150128012638.187292688@linuxfoundation.org> <54C840BA.7020207@cn.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54C840BA.7020207@cn.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:51:54AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > On 01/28/2015 09:26 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > I don't think it is a bug-fix. > It is just a good cleanup. It is a bug fix, for a rare but potentially critical issue. Please read the patch description. It contains ample information on what's broken and also the link to the original bug report. Thanks. -- tejun