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Message-ID: <AANLkTinl2JKUX6859Ioa1y0DqHWXH5TrkissQ8BAF4cP@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:29:14 -0400
From:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, nauman@...gle.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc2-git1 - include/linux/cgroup.h:534 invoked 
	rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:11 -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
>>
>> Sorry.  I misunderstood this message when I first read it.  I didn't
>> realize this message include a new version of the patch.
>> Anyhow, I just tried to apply the patch to 2.6.35-rc2-git3 and got this:
>>
>> # patch -p1 -l -F 20 --dry-run < ../5.patch
>> patching file include/linux/cgroup.h
>> patching file kernel/sched.c
>> Hunk #1 succeeded at 306 with fuzz 1.
>> Hunk #3 FAILED at 4462.
>> Hunk #4 succeeded at 4487 with fuzz 3.
>> 1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/sched.c.rej
>
> Weird.. it seems to apply without trouble to Linus' git tree.
>
> root@...ns:/usr/src/linux-2.6# git checkout -f origin/master
> HEAD is now at 84f7586... Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
> root@...ns:/usr/src/linux-2.6# quilt push
> Applying patch patches/sched-rcu-validation.patch
> patching file include/linux/cgroup.h
> patching file kernel/sched.c
>
> Now at patch patches/sched-rcu-validation.patch
> root@...ns:/usr/src/linux-2.6# git describe
> v2.6.35-rc2-54-g84f7586

Oh.  Duh. I know what is going on.  I had received another patch to
sched.c.  They must conflict.  I will test with just your patch now.
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