linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70

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Message-ID: <m11vfmzrfr.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:30:48 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70

Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:46:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> > 
>> > It also only affects those fairly rare lockdep users as well, and the only
>> > affect is to throw a nasty warning message.  Isn't lockdep all about throwing
>> > nasty warning messages?
>> 
>> Hmm. The report has that "BUG: " message in it (and in the subject line), 
>> but you're right - it ends up being just a warning, not actually a real 
>> BUG() (which is a machine killer).
>> 
>> So yeah - it's not as bad as I thought. Sorry.
>
> It's a messy warning, I have patches that should fix the remaining ones
> that I will send to you tomorrow.

Greg if you have it that is great.  I started looking through the emails
I received and it looks like you weren't copied on all of them.  At this
point I will double check after you send out your changes to Linus.  That
we have everything I have seen reported.

Eric
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