On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:03:28PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:45:19PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.19-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I should have rewritten that changelog, Yue Hainbing's makes it just
sound like cleanup.
That variable should definitely be private to each task, the sharing
could cause real bugs.
Admittedly, I don't have actual bug reports, so you could argue this
falls under the 'No "theoretical race condition"' rule, but the
potential consequences are pretty bad and the fix very simple, so I
still think it's a good stable candidate.
Thanks for the explanation, I've queued it for all stable branches.
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Thanks,
Sasha
