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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:15:20 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:30:05PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On to, 2016-03-31 at 12:49 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:45:06AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > 
> > > A fault in a user provided buffer may lead anywhere, and lockdep warns
> > > that we have a potential deadlock between the mm->mmap_sem and the
> > > kernfs file mutex:
> > ...
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Ville Syrj?l? <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> > > Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94350
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > > Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Ville Syrj?l? <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I have applied this locally to our repo to be included into our CI
> builds.
> 
> We will drop the local patch once this waterfalls from upstream to our
> drm-intel-nightly repo.

So is this something that needs to get into 4.6-final because it
resolves a reported issue?  Or can it wait for 4.7-rc1?

thanks,

greg k-h