linux-kernel - Re: Linus GIT - INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

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Date:	Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:40:13 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Luis Henriques <henrix@...andro.org>,
	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linus GIT - INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:17:23PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:57:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:31:46 +0400
> > Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > (cc'ed Andrew and Alexey)
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 20:49 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:57:20AM -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > I'm hitting the exact same problem, using a minimal .config file (can send
> > > > it if required), by just running "find /".
> > > > 
> > > > I have bisected the problem and found that commit
> > > > aa6afca5bcaba8101f3ea09d5c3e4100b2b9f0e5 seems to be the cause of it.
> > 
> > Well, let's tell the -stable maintainer(s?)
> 
> It's just me.  And my script-bots, but they are all controlled by me in
> the end.  Hopefully....
> 
> > that aa6afca5bca ("proc:
> > fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**") is known to cause a
> > regression.
> 
> Ok, I'll go delete it from the stable queues for now.

Now removed.

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