linux-kernel - Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ?

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Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:38:13 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, gaoyang.zyh@...bao.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport
 ?

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 13:14 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com> wrote:
> 
> > commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba
> > Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@...bao.com>
> > Date:   Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800
> > 
> >     sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval()
> > 
> > Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong
> > value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a
> > candidate for stable kernel.
> > 
> > The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace
> > programs? As the changelog says:
> > 
> >     [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a
> >       slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
> 
> It appears to have caused no trouble.
> 
> So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels:
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

I've queued this up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.

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