linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] locking fix

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Message-ID: <20190516235553.GU11972@sasha-vm>
Date:   Thu, 16 May 2019 19:55:53 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] locking fix

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:42:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:39 AM Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I'll work on that later tonight...
>
>Note that it probably is almost entirely impossible to trigger the
>problem in practice, so it's not like this is a particularly important
>stable back-port.
>
>I just happened to look at it and go "hmm, it's not _marked_ for stable".

I've addressed a missing a8654596f03 ("locking/rwsem: Enable lock event
counting") and queued up a backport for 5.1-4.9.

--
Thanks,
Sasha