Re: Patch "exit: wait_task_zombie: kill the no longer necessary spin_lock_irq(siglock)" has been added to the 6.7-stable tree

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On 02/20, Greg KH wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 01:20:33PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?

Probably my fault, I should not have sent this patch in the same series
along with the siglock->stats_lock changes.

But again, it should not hurt if other patches it depends on are correct,
and I hope very much they do not introduce another problem ;)

Oleg.





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