On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:14:28PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > > > My "Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: eliminate the trylock path in > > acquire/release_region_mutex" (b05d8d9ef5ef21d1b18440430f950304836e1aaa > > in char-misc-next) removed these wrappers. > > I see now. There are many changes in char-misc-next. The description > gives the impression that mainline is broken. Not sure if thats true, > perhaps its just char-misc-next which is affected.
Mainline is broken. We only found these when we removed the wrapper and then static checkers were able to catch the bug. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

