On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 01:20:33PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 02/19, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > exit: wait_task_zombie: kill the no longer necessary spin_lock_irq(siglock) > > > > to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > exit-wait_task_zombie-kill-the-no-longer-necessary-spin_lock_irq-siglock.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > I guess it is safe for 6.7-stable, but just in case... This particular patch > doesn't look like a stable material to me, it is not needed to fix the possible > hard-lockup addressed by other changes in queue-6.7. It was tagged for stable inclusion by someone, so I'm guessing the maintainer thought it should be merged? thanks, greg k-h
