On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:29:06PM -0600, Omar Ramirez Luna wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Please consider to apply this patch in the staging tree, as the > description says it fixes a crash in tidspbridge driver, this bug > was already present but it seems to have surfaced by recent tests > made by Felipe and Tuomas. > > It is an urgent fix for 2.6.38.
Heh, it's funny to see such a "urgent" fix take so long to get to me :) Is it also applicable for .37? > More on this discussion: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1351446 > > Thanks, > - omar > > From: Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> > > We need to protect not only the dmm_map list, but the individual > map_obj's, otherwise, we might be building the scatter-gather list with > garbage. So, use the existing proc_lock for that. > > I observed race conditions which caused kernel panics while running > stress tests, also, Tuomas Kulve found it happening quite often in > Gumstix Over. This patch fixes those. > > Cc: Tuomas Kulve <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <[email protected]> How about I send it to Linus for .39 and then add it to the .38-stable tree when it comes out? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
