Re: [PATCH v2] bcache: explicitly destroy mutex while exiting

From: Michael Lyle
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 15:15:22 EST


On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Eric Wheeler
<bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should this Cc: stable to avoid the register race (possible
> crash?) described by Liang in other stable kernels?
>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This seems like an unlikely failure; basically you must have built
bcache for debug (which not many of us are doing on previous stable
series), and then be critically out of resources at the time that
bcache is registering. Seems like more trouble than it's worth to
send it to -stable.

Mike