Bug#622937: [Stable-review] [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to kthread conversion
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi <hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net>, stable@kernel.org, Max Vozeler <max@vozeler.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable-review@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [12/74] staging: usbip: bugfixes related to kthread conversion
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:02:55 -0700
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:15:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> > From: Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net>
> >
> > commit d2dd0b07c3e725d386d20294ec906f7ddef207fa upstream.
> >
> > When doing a usb port reset do a queued reset instead to prevent a
> > deadlock: the reset will cause the driver to unbind, causing the
> > usb_driver_lock_for_reset to stall.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan Mels <arjan.mels@gmx.net>
> > Cc: Takahiro Hirofuchi <hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net>
> > Cc: Max Vozeler <max@vozeler.com>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> >
>
> I think either the subject line is misleading or the patch is not
> needed in -stable. The kthread conversion was done in 2.6.38, so
> any bug introduced by it would not need to be fixed in an earlier
> version, afaict.
Yes, the Subject: was incorrect, and I only realized it after it was
committed to the tree, sorry.
The bug fixes were still real.
thanks,
greg k-h
_______________________________________________
Stable-review mailing list
Stable-review@linux.kernel.org
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable-review
Reply to: