On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 06:38:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 17:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us > > know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@netapp.com> > > > > commit b55c59892e1f3b6c7d4b9ccffb4263e1486fb990 upstream. > > > > Since rpc_killall_tasks may modify the rpc_task's tk_action field > > without any locking, we need to be careful when dereferencing it. > [...] > > This isn't nearly careful enough to avoid races. You must at least use > the ACCESS_ONCE macro, otherwise the compiler can just optimise away the > local variable this introduces.
Well, that's an upstream issue as well, right? Not much I can do here in the stable updates :) greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
