On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 06:29:06PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:09:20PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This commit (included in 5.6-rc5) seems to be needed for 5.4 and 5.5 > > branches: > > > > commit 6d390e4b5d48ec03bb87e63cf0a2bff5f4e116da > > Author: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed Mar 4 15:25:56 2020 +0800 > > > > locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter > > I've queued it up for 5.5 and 5.4, thanks! > > > I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't yet been applied, while some fixes > > from 5.6-rc6 have. > > Greg, I wonder if it makes sense to have you push a "Greg is here > --->" "bookmark" in the form of a tag/branch on linux-stable-rc.git? at > the very least it'll make it easy to see if something was missed or > still waiting in the queue. To quote Jeff Layton: Hi Greg, there is a performance regression with this patch. We're sorting through potential ways to address it at the moment, but you may want to hold off until we have a fix for that merged. Sorry for the hassle! Which is why I dropped it for now. I'll go drop it again :) thanks, greg k-h
