6 Dec
2018
6 Dec
'18
10:54 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:00:20PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
That same race appears to be present in older kernel branches also. The context is sligthly different, so the patch for 4.14 does not apply cleanly to older kernels. For 4.9 branch, this edit works:
You could take the upstream one, amend it with your change, test it and send it to Greg - I believe he'll take the backport gladly.
:-)
Yes, that's the easiest way for me to accept such a patch, otherwise it gets put on the end of the very-long-queue...
thanks,
greg k-h