Re: [PATCH 1/2] locktorture: Fix deboosting nil ptr dereferencing

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Mar 09 2016 - 21:25:00 EST


On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:05:01AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2016, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >Queued for 4.7, thank you!!!
> >
> >(If you need it earlier, please let me know.)
>
> Thanks, Paul. Could we have them for 4.6 at least? Both are small and
> rather trivial but fix really annoying problems. ie, I've now come to
> see that the rtmutex torturing is pretty useless if you plan on exiting
> the run without the fix.

OK, rebased them down to just after my recent pull request and set
rcu/next to that spot. If no problems from -next testing and no
valid complaints, I will send them along.

Thanx, Paul