linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] hid: usbhid: hid-core: fix recursive deadlock

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:36:05 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com>
cc:	Ping Cheng <pinglinux@...il.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, joshc@...com,
	Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adi@...rat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hid: usbhid: hid-core: fix recursive deadlock

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jason Gerecke wrote:

> I've been prompted to resurrect this question after fielding yet another 
> question from a user encountering a locked-up system. We received a 
> surprising number of reports of people encountering this issue in the 
> past several weeks and that's only going to get worse as 4.4 works its 
> way into distros. Integrating back even just to 4.4 instead of 3.19 
> would be appreciated since this issue has (so far) only ever been 
> encountered with the new Intuos tablets that were added in 4.4...

I am in favor of pushing this to -stable. As you guys seem to be the ones 
able to test it with your hardware, would you guys (Ioan-Adrian? Jason?) 
be willing to prepare the backport and submit it once it passes your 
testing?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs