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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] tipc: fix semaphore handling
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:31:23 -0800 (PST)
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From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:02:36 -0800

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> As noted by Kevin, tipc's release() does down_interruptible() and ignores the
> return value.  So if signal_pending() we'll end up doing up() on a non-downed
> semaphore.  Fix.
> 
> Cc: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
> Cc: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
> Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
> Cc: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

This is already in my net-2.6 tree, but thanks for resubmitting
anyways :)