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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] ashmem: Fix ashmem_shrink deadlock.
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:39:35 -0700
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On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:22:18AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> > > Don't acquire ashmem_mutex in ashmem_shrink if we've somehow recursed into the
> > > shrinker code from within ashmem. Just bail out, avoiding a deadlock. This is
> > > fine, as ashmem cache pruning is advisory anyhow.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
> > 
> > Any reason not to send this to stable@vger.kernel.org if it fixes an 
> > observable deadlock?  (It's annotated to be applied to linux-next, but I 
> > don't see any differences between it and Linus's tree.)
> > 
> 
> This was sent separately to stable@vger.kernel.org before being merged 
> into Linus's tree .  Greg, could this be queued up for 3.10 with a cc to 
> stable@vger.kernel.org?

Yes, I'll handle all of this properly, thanks.

greg k-h