Hello, Greg.
I forgot to add cc tag for stable for the following patch. It's now
in mainline as commit 1dadafa86a779884f14a6e7a3ddde1a57b0a0a65.
Thanks.
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:26:04AM -0600, tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move
> flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL
> flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper.
> Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL function.
> This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this function
> and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules.
>
> See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make
> schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent.
>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> index 4c4f061..a413acb 100644
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ void flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
> out_unlock:
> mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_workqueue);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_workqueue);
>
> /**
> * drain_workqueue - drain a workqueue
> --
> 1.9.1
>
--
tejun
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