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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:40:59 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, jan.kratochvil@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach()
On 02/01, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Am unable to work out why you tagged it for backporting. It fixes some
> > observed bug? Perhaps a regression?
>
> No observed bug,
Well, this bug triggered the problem in practice, this was the reason
for 95a3540d.
> I don't think
> this first change is dangerous for -stable, but I have seen no positive
> rationale for pushing it there.
Agreed, I don't really think -stable needs this change, but otoh
it is obviously safe.
Oleg.
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