Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754333Ab3IXRlS (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:41:18 -0400 Received: from mail-ea0-f170.google.com ([209.85.215.170]:33133 "EHLO mail-ea0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753208Ab3IXRlQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:41:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:41:13 +0300 From: Mihai =?UTF-8?B?RG9uyJt1?= To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: fanotify: don't merge permission events Message-ID: <20130924204113.4621d61a@mdontu-l> Organization: Home Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 20 Ben, Greg, Can you pull this[1] patch into your stable kernels (3.2, 3.4)? It fixes an unfortunate bug in fanotify where a multithreaded application can end up in an interruptible state, a situation which only a reboot can fix. Ultimately, I'm hoping that the fix ends up in Ubuntu's kernels (for which I have also created a request[2]). Thank you, [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/fs/notify/fanotify?id=03a1cec1f17ac1a6041996b3e40f96b5a2f90e1b [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1148084 -- Mihai Donțu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/