Re: [06/11] tty: fix race in tty_fasync

[Eric W. Biederman]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>> 
>> Only that __f_setown by way of f_modown unconditionally enables interrupts.  So
>> without touching f_modown as well in mainline we have nasty sounding lockdep warnings.
>
> Hmm. That seems to be true in mainline too, isn't it?

Yes.  We are having that conversation in the thread:
   "[2.6.33-rc5] starting emacs makes lockdep warning"

Eric
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