From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] locking fix
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 19:55:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190516235553.GU11972@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgNFabppzpSQQgt7ajrYqmFjtkn2D3n=RvSEDryCLO+=g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:42:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:39 AM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I'll work on that later tonight...
>
>Note that it probably is almost entirely impossible to trigger the
>problem in practice, so it's not like this is a particularly important
>stable back-port.
>
>I just happened to look at it and go "hmm, it's not _marked_ for stable".
I've addressed a missing a8654596f03 ("locking/rwsem: Enable lock event
counting") and queued up a backport for 5.1-4.9.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-16 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190516160135.GA45760@gmail.com>
2019-05-16 17:57 ` [GIT PULL] locking fix Linus Torvalds
2019-05-16 18:39 ` Greg KH
2019-05-16 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-16 23:55 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-05-17 12:16 ` Greg KH
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