Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 05/29/2013 09:59 AM, Luis Henriques wrote: >> Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Commit 73aaa22d5ffb2630456bac2f9a4ed9b81d0d7271 upstream >>> >>> This fixes a real-world hang reported against the 3.9.3 kernel. >> >> The races described in the commit seem to be present in all the other >> stable kernels. Could you please confirm this is also applicable for >> older kernels? > > This patch is applicable and safe for older kernels as well. As the > problem has only been seen recently, I suspect that it might be > triggered by the writeback changes that were merged into 3.5 (commit > 90324cc1) but I'm not certain of that. Thanks for confirming that. I'll queue it for the 3.5 kernel. Cheers, -- Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html