linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] floppy: refactor open() flags handling (was Re: mm: uninterruptable tasks hanged on mmap

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Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:40:46 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] floppy: refactor open() flags handling (was Re: mm:
 uninterruptable tasks hanged on mmap_sem)

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:

> I don't have any objections. And I agree that it does not make sense
> to spend any considerable time on optimizing this driver.

Yeah, on a second thought this definitely is the way how to deal with this 
in this particular driver.

> > Alternatively we can take more conservative aproach, accept the
> > nonblocking flag, but do the regular business of the driver.
> >
> > Actually, let's try that, to make sure that we don't introduce userspace
> > breakage.
> >
> > Could you please retest with the patch below?
> 
> Reapplied.

Thanks. Once/if you confirm that syzkaller is not able to reproduce the 
problem any more, I'll queue it and push to Jens.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs