On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:30:05PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote: > On to, 2016-03-31 at 12:49 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:45:06AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > > > > A fault in a user provided buffer may lead anywhere, and lockdep warns > > > that we have a potential deadlock between the mm->mmap_sem and the > > > kernfs file mutex: > > ... > > > > > > Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> > > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94350 > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > > > Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > > Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected] > > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > > > > Thanks. > > I have applied this locally to our repo to be included into our CI > builds. > > We will drop the local patch once this waterfalls from upstream to our > drm-intel-nightly repo.
So is this something that needs to get into 4.6-final because it resolves a reported issue? Or can it wait for 4.7-rc1? thanks, greg k-h
