linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: missing merge fix for the access

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Message-ID: <20141223173418.59e8556f@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:34:18 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: missing merge fix for the access_once tree

Hi Linus,

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:12:22 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > I have been carrying this merge fix patch for some time.  It should
> > have gone into the merge of the access_once tree.
> 
> No, you had a different tree that got merged into linux-next, that
> made it an error to do ACCESS_ONCE() on a structure.
> 
> The thing I merged didn't actually have that final commit, exactly so
> that things wouldn't break from missing conversions.
> 
> So that patch isn't wrong, but it also isn't exactly a required fix
> until the next merge window..

True, so "should" was a bit strong.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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