On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 04:44:58PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > OTOH, this is a security fix, and the bug has been reported and > > outstanding for a while, so if you want to push this sooner, that's > > fine. > > Yes, I'd prefer to take this as-is, and I'll take any "cleanups" later > when they hit Linus's tree, if they actually matter. Note, Linus has just veoted the generic bitops approach, so the patch that will hit Linus's tree will be different. I don't think it's necessary to fix the changes in the stable tree, since his objection is about not accidentally handing a howitzer to kernel devs who might accidentally shoot off their own foot. (Which shouldn't be a problem since people shouldn't be doing development off a stable kernel tree. :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html