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

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Message-ID: <20190517121616.GA3705@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 14:16:16 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        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 07:55:53PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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 for doing this.

greg k-h