On Mon 2019-07-29 21:23:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > > commit b70d31d054ee3a6fc1034b9d7fc0ae1e481aa018 upstream. > > In preparation for fixing a deadlock between wait_for_bus_probe_idle() > and the nvdimm_bus_list_mutex arrange for __nd_ioctl() without > nvdimm_bus_list_mutex held. This also unifies the 'dimm' and 'bus' level > ioctls into a common nd_ioctl() preamble implementation. Ok, so this is a preparation patch, not a fix... > Marked for -stable as it is a pre-requisite for a follow-on fix. ...but follow-on fixes are going to be applied for 5.2 but not 4.19. So perhaps this one should not be in 4.19, either? Best regards, Pavel (Plus its quite complex). > drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- > drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h | 3 + -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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