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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] futex: Cure exit race
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:29:49 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812111014240.3075@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181210230142.GG97256@sasha-vm>

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:16:03PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > How should we proceed with this patch?
> > 
> > I'll look into that once this is sorted... I so love these rotten kernels.
> 
> It seems we need:
> 
> 	734009e96d19 ("futex: Change locking rules")
> 
> Which isn't trivial to backport.

It's simpler to backport the fix. I'll look at that once we agreed on the
final solution.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-11 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-10 15:23 [patch] futex: Cure exit race Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-10 16:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-12-10 17:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-12  9:04     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-12-18  9:31       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-19 13:29         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-19 19:13           ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found] ` <20181210210920.75EBD20672@mail.kernel.org>
2018-12-10 21:16   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-10 23:01     ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-11 10:29       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-12-11  8:04 ` Stefan Liebler
2018-12-11 10:32   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-18 22:18 ` [tip:locking/urgent] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner

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