linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: final fixes for events and some

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Message-ID: <20130805143257.GA32639@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:32:57 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: final fixes for events and some


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> Linus,
> 
> Oleg Nesterov has been working hard in closing all the holes that can 
> lead to race conditions between deleting an event and accessing an event 
> debugfs file. This included a fix to the debugfs system (acked by Greg 
> Kroah-Hartman). We think that all the holes have been patched and 
> hopefully we don't find more. I haven't marked all of them for stable 
> because I need to examine them more to figure out how far back some of 
> the changes need to go.

Sigh, that's quite some churn still - unless these bugs were introduced in 
the v3.11 merge window (i.e. are genuine _regressions_), shouldn't such 
invasive fixes really go into v3.12 instead?

I see that some of the fixes here fix issues that your earlier post-rc1 
rounds of non-regression fixes introduced to begin with. That's really not 
a good pattern either IMO.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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