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From: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
To: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.4.106: futex: Wrong back port of 9e9aab5dbf?
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:43:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55ED4E3C.7000101@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C59DDE.5020908@gmail.com>

Hi Dirk,

On 2015/8/8 14:12, Dirk Behme wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from a private -stable review we think that the commit 9e9aab5dbf ("futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier" [1]) is not correctly back ported to 3.4.x:
>
> The issue is that the memory barrier is introduced into drop_futex_key_refs() function instead of get_futex_key_refs() function.
>
> Additionally, we are unsure if the futex commits this commit is fixing are really in < 3.4.106. I.e. we are unsure if this fix is needed at all. Or at least if some additional futex commits are needed.
>
> Do you like to check?
>

I've confired this commit isn't needed for 3.4.y. It was backported quite long ago,
and at that time I hadn't improved my scripts to check the Fixes tag. Fortunately
seems this mistake won't cause serious issue.

I'll revert it in the coming 3.4.109. Thanks for the review!


      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-07  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-08  6:12 3.4.106: futex: Wrong back port of 9e9aab5dbf? Dirk Behme
2015-09-07  8:43 ` Zefan Li [this message]

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