On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:03:28PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:45:19PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.19-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I should have rewritten that changelog, Yue Hainbing's makes it just sound like cleanup.
That variable should definitely be private to each task, the sharing could cause real bugs.
Admittedly, I don't have actual bug reports, so you could argue this falls under the 'No "theoretical race condition"' rule, but the potential consequences are pretty bad and the fix very simple, so I still think it's a good stable candidate.
Thanks for the explanation, I've queued it for all stable branches.
-- Thanks, Sasha