linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix Bug 10504 - losetup possible circular locking

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Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:48:47 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc:	zdenek.kabelac@...il.com, bunk@...nel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	hidave.darkstar@...il.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nikanth@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix Bug 10504 - losetup possible circular locking

On Thu, Mar 26 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:00:32 Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > > Hi Jens
> > >
> > > Did you get to look at this? Can you ACK/NACK this one?
> >
> > It looks fine, I have applied it.
> >
> 
> Thanks. But it looks like, the patch I quoted in the changelog had the "---" 
> delimiter, which made you commit without the full changelog and signed-off. 
> Sorry for that mistake.

That was actually done on purpose, I wanted the whole thing there! It
was a lot more useful than the short summary. Never be afraid to write
exhaustive changelogs, I even put the test app in there for some cases
when that makes sense.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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