Re: [ 27/27] tty: dont deadlock while flushing workqueue

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:37:36PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> [ -cc Alan Cox ]
> 
> On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 19:43 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit 852e4a8152b427c3f318bb0e1b5e938d64dcdc32 upstream.
> 
> Greg,
> 
> So many other serious error conditions are possible here, it seems
> pointless to add this to 3.8-stable.

The submitter said it fixed a real problem that they were having in the
3.8 kernel, so I think it is relevant for that reason alone.

thanks,

greg k-h
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