On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 13:12 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:44:00PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 3.16.81-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit 3d94a4a8373bf5f45cf5f939e88b8354dbf2311b upstream. [...] > Brian Norris noted that this commit has unbalanced locking and > submitted a followup as per: > > https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20200106224212.189763-1-briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11320227/ Right, but is the new behaviour (possible wrong preemption count) actually worse than the old behaviour (possible heap buffer overflow)? I think we are better off applying this now and adding that fix once it's upstream. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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