Re: [ 00/34] 3.4.59-stable review

[Shuah Khan]

On 08/20/2013 10:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:53:24AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 07:36:00AM +0000, Berg, Johannes wrote:
> > > > > > [ 26/34] genetlink: fix family dump race
> > > > >
> > > > > Johannes, another strike against this patch :(
> > > > >
> > > > > Any chance on fixing it upstream and me sucking that fix in?
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, I'm trying to get that, but it's not clear to me how to fix it.
> > > > Where did you apply it? It was going to need some fixes but when the
> > > > first objection was raised I figured you were going to drop it for now
> > > > completely? Sorry for the mess :-(
> > >
> > > You're right, I'll drop this for 3.4, it doesn't make sense there.
> >
> > And you'll drop it from 3.0 and 3.10 also, I hope?
>
> It wasn't in 3.0, was it?  Oh crap, it was...
>
> 3.10, I'd rather have the "real" fix that ends up resolving the issue in
> Linus's tree also, instead of just dropping it.
>
> Especially as I just did the releases...

3.10 worked fine with no issues with this fix. I couldn't test 3.0 on 
this system because 3.4 is the minimum for my test system.

-- Shuah

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