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

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:24:51 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
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, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:05:01AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 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.

OK, rebased them down to just after my recent pull request and set
rcu/next to that spot.  If no problems from -next testing and no
valid complaints, I will send them along.

							Thanx, Paul