From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755396AbZCLKCf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:02:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752363AbZCLKCZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:02:25 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:42437 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752174AbZCLKCY (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:02:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:02:05 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: David Newall Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix off-by-one in __iterator_load_balance Message-ID: <20090312100205.GA30095@elte.hu> References: <49B7CF67.5070604@davidnewall.com> <49B8D730.4030708@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B8D730.4030708@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * David Newall wrote: > David Newall wrote: > > An off-by-one bug in __iterator_load_balance causes it to erroneously > > return NULL if the next task on the list is also the last entry in the > > list. This patch corrects that fault. > > > > Patch withdrawn. Who'd have thought 2.6.27.19 was so out of date? Yeah, the 2.6.27 -> latest-sched-devel distance is more than 250 commits already - that's a lot of commits for the scheduler which is only 15 KLOC. Patches done on .27 are unlikely to apply - and bugs are often fixed already. Ingo