linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] locktorture: Fix deboosting nil ptr dereferencing

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:05:01 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	josh@...htriplett.org, guohanjun@...wei.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] locktorture: Fix deboosting nil ptr dereferencing

On Wed, 09 Mar 2016, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>Queued for 4.7, thank you!!!
>
>(If you need it earlier, please let me know.)

Thanks, Paul. Could we have them for 4.6 at least? Both are small and
rather trivial but fix really annoying problems. ie, I've now come to
see that the rtmutex torturing is pretty useless if you plan on exiting
the run without the fix.

Thanks,
Davidlohr