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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next] ashmem: Fix ashmem_shrink deadlock.
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:22:18AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Rientjes 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.)
> >
>
> This was sent separately to stable@vger.kernel.org before being merged
> into Linus's tree . Greg, could this be queued up for 3.10 with a cc to
> stable@vger.kernel.org?

Yes, I'll handle all of this properly, thanks.

greg k-h


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