On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:00:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this one isn't technically needed. It turns out the memory stomp can't > actually happen, because while the code is ugly and wrong, the hlist_del_init > will actually fix things up almost by accident. Although it might even have > been on purpose by Al originally. > > So I'm not sure it needs back porting. It's *probably* a good idea, but the > bug > wasn't as bad as originally thought. > > Al added to cc just to keep him in the loop. It might be worth back porting > just to keep stable similar to head wrt this very confusing code. Al, > comments?
I think it's probably worth keeping in sync just to keep the confusion to a minimum, unless Al objects. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
