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From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: more POLL... fun
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:59:44 +1100 (AEDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3vP58c692tz9s8V@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204173031.GJ22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 17:30:31 UTC, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:13:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I think that would be best. Do you want me to send that patch, or do
> > you prefer to do it yourself? In theory that patch should also go into stable
> > kernels, but I suspect nobody who still owns a machine that is able to run
> > this code will ever upgrade to a stable release, so we probably don't need
> > that.
> 
> Probably better if it goes through ppc tree - the only relationship it has
> to VFS is broken calls of kill_fasync() in now-removed code...  Something
> like this, perhaps?
> 
> [spufs] get rid of broken fasync stuff
>  
> In all the years it's been in the tree it had never been used by
> anything - it would instantly trigger BUG_ON() in fs/fcntl.c due
> to bogus band argument passed to kill_fasync().  Since nobody
> had ever used it in ten years, let's just rip it out and be
> done with that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7d7be3aa08fa338e84eb235805ee18

cheers

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-16  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-27  5:00 ->poll() instances shouldn't be indefinitely blocking Al Viro
2015-11-27 15:18 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2015-11-27 17:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-30  3:04     ` Al Viro
2015-12-04  6:38       ` more POLL... fun Al Viro
2015-12-04  9:16         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-04 15:21           ` Al Viro
2015-12-04 17:13             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-04 17:30               ` Al Viro
2015-12-04 17:34                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-06 23:58                 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-16  5:59                 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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