This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mv_xor: fix race in tasklet function
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mv_xor-fix-race-in-tasklet-function.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 8333f65ef094e47020cd01452b4637e7daf5a77f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saeed Bishara <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:53:39 +0200
Subject: mv_xor: fix race in tasklet function
From: Saeed Bishara <[email protected]>
commit 8333f65ef094e47020cd01452b4637e7daf5a77f upstream.
use mv_xor_slot_cleanup() instead of __mv_xor_slot_cleanup() as the former
function
aquires the spin lock that needed to protect the drivers data.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ mv_xor_slot_cleanup(struct mv_xor_chan *
static void mv_xor_tasklet(unsigned long data)
{
struct mv_xor_chan *chan = (struct mv_xor_chan *) data;
- __mv_xor_slot_cleanup(chan);
+ mv_xor_slot_cleanup(chan);
}
static struct mv_xor_desc_slot *
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.36/mv_xor-fix-race-in-tasklet-function.patch
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