Re: [PATCH v2] hid: usbhid: hid-core: fix recursive deadlock

Jiri Kosina
2016-01-21T09:36:14Z

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jason Gerecke wrote:

> I've been prompted to resurrect this question after fielding yet another
> question from a user encountering a locked-up system. We received a
> surprising number of reports of people encountering this issue in the
> past several weeks and that's only going to get worse as 4.4 works its
> way into distros. Integrating back even just to 4.4 instead of 3.19
> would be appreciated since this issue has (so far) only ever been
> encountered with the new Intuos tablets that were added in 4.4...

I am in favor of pushing this to -stable. As you guys seem to be the ones
able to test it with your hardware, would you guys (Ioan-Adrian? Jason?)
be willing to prepare the backport and submit it once it passes your
testing?

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs