On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:13:14AM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > On Tue Jan 22 13, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > > Hi Greg and James, > > > > I discussed this with Tejun late last week, and the mutex can't be > > held in devcgroup_css_free. Since there shouldn't be any references > > when css_free is called the mutex shouldn't need to be held anyways. I've > > just sent him an email asking if the proper thing to do here is add > > the list cleanup code back in that was factored out into > > dev_exception_clean. Then the other calls to dev_exception_clean will > > still hit the assert, and the list will still be cleaned up in > > devcgroup_css_free. > > > > So drop this patch from stable, and I will get the correct fix for > > upstream and a fix for stable to you. > > > > Jerry > > > > Looking at 3.7 stable it doesn't have the lockdep assert in > dev_exception_clean() so a fix isn't needed here.
Thanks for letting me know, I've dropped the patch from the 3.7-stable queue now. 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
