Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 1 May 2013 08:54:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -next] ashmem: Fix ashmem_shrink deadlock. |
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On Wed, 1 May 2013, Robert Love wrote:
> Don't acquire ashmem_mutex in ashmem_shrink if we've somehow recursed into the > shrinker code from within ashmem. Just bail out, avoiding a deadlock. This is > fine, as ashmem cache pruning is advisory anyhow. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Any reason not to send this to stable@vger.kernel.org if it fixes an observable deadlock? (It's annotated to be applied to linux-next, but I don't see any differences between it and Linus's tree.)
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