linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0.92

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Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:43:43 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, lwn@....net,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.92

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:33:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Johannes Berg (1):
> >       genetlink: fix family dump race
> 
> This one turns out to be buggy, see thread called "3.11-rc6 genetlink
> locking fix offends lockdep".

Yeah, I messed up in keeping it here, I'll go revert it and push out a
new 3.0 release.

> I really think there should be delay before stable picks up stuff from
> mainline, unless it's something particularly critical and
> well-discussed.. Maybe a week or so.

I can do that, it's just hard to tell from my end what is "well
discussed" all the time.

> Now it's both in 3.0 and 3.10, so the revert (unless we find a better
> fix - and the first two patches have already failed) will have to go
> there too.

I thought that there was a fix already for this...  Ah, no, that was for
another reported regression in an older 3.10-stable release, my bad.

Johannes, what do you want to do here?  Just revert it in Linus's tree
for now, given the late -rc cycle?

thanks,

greg k-h
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