From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
dyoung@redhat.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, paulmck@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] proc/vmcore: fix possible deadlock on concurrent mmap and" failed to apply to 5.16-stable tree
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:40:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkrLNL47V+dhPFF+@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a220426-6b83-6a0e-5af0-ee4c76e72c79@redhat.com>
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 12:17:47PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 02.04.22 13:36, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 5.16-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >
>
> I don't think we need that particular patch in -stable. The deadlock
> shouldn't really happen in practice (concurrent addition/removal of a
> callback doesn't really happen in a kdump anvironment). Thanks.
Ok, I'll go drop it from 5.17-stable, thanks.
greg k-h
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2022-04-02 11:36 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] proc/vmcore: fix possible deadlock on concurrent mmap and" failed to apply to 5.16-stable tree gregkh
2022-04-04 10:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-04 10:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
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