linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex

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Message-ID: <20081217195620.GA25375@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:56:20 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...nel.org, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [stable] [BUG] Upon hitting ^c, inotify blocks on mutex_lock

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 07:48:56PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 04:41:23PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Today, having had gthumb running for a while, I hit ^c expecting it to
> > quit.  The result was a process with zero VSZ and RSS, and it sitting
> > in run state.  Only possible recovery action seems to be a reboot.
> 
> Al Viro looked into this, and suggested that 711a49a might fix the
> problem.  I've just tested this on top of 2.6.27.8, and it does
> indeed appear to fix the problem.  Suggest it should be included
> in the next stable kernel.

It's already queued up for the 2.6.27.10 release to be happening
tomorrow :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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