Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:32:57 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: final fixes for events and some
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> Linus,
> 
> Oleg Nesterov has been working hard in closing all the holes that can 
> lead to race conditions between deleting an event and accessing an event 
> debugfs file. This included a fix to the debugfs system (acked by Greg 
> Kroah-Hartman). We think that all the holes have been patched and 
> hopefully we don't find more. I haven't marked all of them for stable 
> because I need to examine them more to figure out how far back some of 
> the changes need to go.

Sigh, that's quite some churn still - unless these bugs were introduced in 
the v3.11 merge window (i.e. are genuine _regressions_), shouldn't such 
invasive fixes really go into v3.12 instead?

I see that some of the fixes here fix issues that your earlier post-rc1 
rounds of non-regression fixes introduced to begin with. That's really not 
a good pattern either IMO.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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