Re: [GIT PULL] locking fix

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 08:18:28 EST


On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 07:55:53PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:42:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:39 AM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks, I'll work on that later tonight...
> >
> > Note that it probably is almost entirely impossible to trigger the
> > problem in practice, so it's not like this is a particularly important
> > stable back-port.
> >
> > I just happened to look at it and go "hmm, it's not _marked_ for stable".
>
> I've addressed a missing a8654596f03 ("locking/rwsem: Enable lock event
> counting") and queued up a backport for 5.1-4.9.

Thanks for doing this.

greg k-h