On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:57:26AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, [email protected] wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNING > > > > to the 3.0-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: > > tmpfs-change-final-i_blocks-bug-to-warning.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <[email protected]> know about it. > > Thank you for your diligence! > But I'll say that this one should not go into 3.0-stable. > > Whilst there is an argument that this BUG_ON is like many moronic, > 3.0-stable is not the place for working on that agenda. > > The particular condition which makes this BUG_ON triggerable in 3.1 > onwards cannot happen in 3.0 or before, because they have a lock > spanning the window at both ends of the race, which prevents it.
Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped it from the 3.0-stable tree. 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
