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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
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> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt 

Aha - that's the stable documentation that I missed.  Thanks, Randy.

I figured that there was an explanation somewhere.  And there it is,
right in plain view.

Reading ...

My patch does pass the following criteria:

 - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how
   the race can be exploited.

The conditions to trigger the race are too delicate to exploit
quickly.  I don't have a coded exploit.

Apparently I did the right thing by _not_ sending this patch to
stable@kernel.org <grin>.

This patch is dead.

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                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
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