The patch titled
statistics infrastructure: update 4
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
statistics-infrastructure-update-4.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: statistics infrastructure: update 4
From: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
This fixes an endless loop that might hang the statistics code when it is
parsing options. I assume it also fixes the soft lockup reported by Wu.
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
lib/statistic.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-update-4 lib/statistic.c
--- a/lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-update-4
+++ a/lib/statistic.c
@@ -721,12 +721,7 @@ static int statistic_def_close(struct in
for (offset = 0; offset < seg->offset; offset += seg_nl->size) {
seg_nl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sgrb_seg), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!seg_nl))
- /*
- * FIXME:
- * Should we omit other new settings because we
- * could not process this line of definitions?
- */
- continue;
+ goto out;
seg_nl->address = seg->address + offset;
nl = strnchr(seg_nl->address,
seg->offset - offset, '\n');
@@ -745,6 +740,7 @@ static int statistic_def_close(struct in
}
}
}
+out:
if (!list_empty(&line_lh))
statistic_parse(interface, &line_lh, line_size);
return statistic_generic_close(inode, file);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mp3@xxxxxxxxxx are
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-list.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-timestamp.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-timestamp-fix.patch
statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch
statistics-infrastructure-documentation.patch
statistics-infrastructure.patch
statistics-infrastructure-update-1.patch
statistics-infrastructure-update-2.patch
statistics-infrastructure-update-3.patch
statistics-infrastructure-exploitation-zfcp.patch
statistics-infrastructure-update-4.patch
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