From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:56:36 +0900 From: Greg KH To: Peter Weber Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [drm/i915: Do not store the error pointer for a failed userptr registration] Candidate for stable tree? Message-ID: <20141110025636.GA29809@kroah.com> References: <574931b8edea4d60014d5e9b31daa4a1@ttyhoney.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <574931b8edea4d60014d5e9b31daa4a1@ttyhoney.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:41:02PM +0100, Peter Weber wrote: > Hello! > > Is the patch[0] mentioned in the subject a possible candidate for the next > release of the stable kernel, at time of writing "3.17.3"? It looks like, > this is > causing serious problems and we are currently discussing this on the > bugtracker of > Archlinux[1]. > > I'm not sure if I'm personally affected. I suffered unexpected freezes > since 3.17-rc4 on my machine, at least STDIO and STDOUT are frozen. Maybe > the > reaction differs based on the kernel options (see changed behaviour > through > CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y). In my case, I don't see a null pointer in my > log > files. > > I hope this doesn't offend against the stable kernel rules. > > [0] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e9681366ea9e76ab8f75e84351f2f3ca63ee542c > # commit id is: e9681366ea9e76ab8f75e84351f2f3ca63ee542c > # already send to stable@vger.kernel.org, but not included in current > stable "3.17.2" > [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42353 It's now queued up, sorry, the backlog is really long right now :(