Re: Timer breakage in net-next

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 05:09:24 EST


On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:05 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dave, Kees,
>
> Is it possible to get this timer fix:
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/828333/
>
> timer: Provide wrappers safe for use with LOCKDEP
>
> included in net-next?

FWIW, the LOCKDEP warnings are false positives. The fix includes
updates to one new API function, which would be an additional patch.
When I talked with Thomas, it sounded like it was better just to wait
for the merge window instead of trying to figure out a way to land
this separately in other trees. Obviously this is up to Dave, but it
seemed like a merge of tip/timers/core into net-next would be
confusing.

> You can add my Tested-by line.

Thanks for checking it!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security