Re: [PATCH] futex: Robustify wake_futex()

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Wed Feb 18 2015 - 20:28:40 EST


On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 18:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> while the WARN() already told the user that the kernel is
> broken.
>
> So what's the point? Does it avoid any real badness, state
> corruption, crash, hang, etc.?

Right, I mentioned the warn (redundant pi checks) being completely
redundant - thus this is not a real issue... feel free to toss, this was
just a wtf when reading the code ;)

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