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

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Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:59:25 +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 Thursday 26 March 2009 15:18:47 Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, but because of a delimiter '---' in my changelog, the git log has only 
> half of the changelog. IOW, the whole thing is not there.

Hmm right, it does appear to be missing everything from (and including)
the

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c

part. I'll fix it up, thanks for noticing!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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