Re: Patch "x86/intel_rdt: Fix potential deadlock during resctrl mount" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:33:08AM -0800, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>On 12/6/2017 9:27 AM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     x86/intel_rdt: Fix potential deadlock during resctrl mount
>>
>> to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
>>     https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kernel.org_git_-3Fp-3Dlinux_kernel_git_stable_stable-2Dqueue.git-3Ba-3Dsummary&d=DwIC-g&c=udBTRvFvXC5Dhqg7UHpJlPps3mZ3LRxpb6__0PomBTQ&r=bUtaaC9mlBij4OjEG_D-KPul_335azYzfC4Rjgomobo&m=4LAq-dsOB6W0b9zgbcNPT4YzBwlNSjv8uakS0N7LlwQ&s=O3eoYUwg3Gh1Gq8Fi8nQPDX4imJh1Zb1lJCPuFrpmRw&e=
>>
>> The filename of the patch is:
>>      x86-intel_rdt-fix-potential-deadlock-during-resctrl-mount.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
>>
>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>
>I do not have an objection to this patch but I am wondering if, since this
>patch is considered for stable, then perhaps its complement should be considered also?
>
>Upstream commit: 36b6f9fcb8928c06b6638a4cf91bc9d69bb49aa2
>x86/intel_rdt: Fix potential deadlock during resctrl unmount

Indeed, it's queued up and I'll send it to Greg in the next pull request.

Thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha



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