Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:26:08 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task |
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:50:34 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
> It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits > for 'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen > in get_signal() before they got a chance to complete 'core_state->startup'. > > Use freezer_do_not_count() to tell freezer to ignore coredumping > task while it waits for core_state->startup completion. > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The changelog provides no reason why this patch should be merged into -stable. Nor into anything else, really.
Please (as always) provide a full description of the bug's end-user visible effects.
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