On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adding Mel to Cc. > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, [email protected] wrote: > > > > The patch titled > > Subject: mm: fix potential data race in SyS_swapon > > has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was > > mm-fix-potential-data-race-in-sys_swapon.patch > > > > This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem > > tree > > Administrative error? I don't see this merged into mainline yet, > and didn't see your usual mail when you send in a batch to Linus. Al Viro grabbed it and put it into linux-next. He didn't include the cc:stable. I stared at that for a while and decided to let it all stand - as you say, the -stable backport is marginal. swapon isn't exactly a high-frequency operation. > And I wouldn't want it rushed too quickly to Linus: that stable > tag is barely justified, this is a very narrow race window that > has gone unnoticed for years, and swapon requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. > > But also I spotted Mel proposing a swap-over-NFS patch in this area > on LKML last Thursday: he appeared to be relying on the loop that I > remove here, so he might want to veto this one (though can always > reinstate what he needs later, if that's how it plays out). -- 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
