On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:08:47PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 05:02:32PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 11:22 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > commit d6e646ad7cfa7034d280459b2b2546288f247144 upstream.
> > [...]
> > > --- a/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
> > > +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
> > > @@ -47,11 +47,13 @@ void exit_thread_runtime_instr(void)
> > > {
> > > struct task_struct *task = current;
> > >
> > > + preempt_disable();
> > > if (!task->thread.ri_cb)
> > > return;
> >
> > This return path now leaves preemption disabled. This seems to have
> > been fixed upstream by commit 8d9047f8b967 "s390/runtime
> > instrumentation: simplify task exit handling".
>
> "simplify" doesn't seem to imply "fixes a bug" :)
Indeed ;) That where two subsequent patches, but incorrectly split by me...
> Heiko, should I also queue this patch up?
Yes, please.
> thanks Ben for the review.
Thanks from me as well!
