Re: fanotify: don't merge permission events

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 20:41 +0300, Mihai DonÈu wrote:
> 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

Queued up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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