On 01/28/2015 10:24 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:51:54AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: >> On 01/28/2015 09:26 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> 3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> >> I don't think it is a bug-fix. >> It is just a good cleanup. > > It is a bug fix, for a rare but potentially critical issue. Please > read the patch description. It contains ample information on what's > broken and also the link to the original bug report. >
Sorry, you are right. Was the bug introduced at the first time when maybe_create_worker() was introduced? Although manage_workers()/maybe_create_worker() was changed a bit, the stable-tree team can simply make manage_workers() return true to fix this bug for the very old kernel versions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
