Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm/futex: Fix futex writes on archs with SW tracking of dirty & young | | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | | Date | Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:40:15 +1000 |
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> You're not understanding me. > > I need a good reason to merge this into 3.0. > > The -stable maintainers need even better reasons to merge this into > earlier kernels. > > Please provide those reasons! > > (Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, 4th bullet) > > (And it's not just me and -stable maintainers. Distro maintainers will > also look at this patch and wonder whether they should merge it)
Well, as an arch maintainer, I can get stable maintainers to merge anything I CC to stable :-)
Now, the good reason should have been rather obvious... it's a user exploitable kernel lockup.
Cheers, Ben.
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