From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754597AbaIXPH0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:07:26 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.229]:52270 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750940AbaIXPHW (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:07:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:07:19 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Daniel Thompson Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@linaro.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, John Stultz , Sumit Semwal , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Jason Wessel Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.17-rc4 v2 0/2] trace: kdb: Bug fixes for ftdump Message-ID: <20140924110719.165b5b5b@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <1411554781-16751-1-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org> References: <1410360247-13791-1-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org> <1411554781-16751-1-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is Jason Wessel still actively maintaining this? I'd like an acked-by from the KDB maintainer before pulling this. Thanks! -- Steve On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:32:59 +0100 Daniel Thompson wrote: > This patchset makes it possible to use kdb's ftdump command without > panicing, crashing or livelocking. > > Changes since v1: > > * Fixed use-after-free problems in v1 by adding logic to NULL out > buffer_iter during free operations. > > * Introduced a second patch to fix a live lock when trying to display > an empty trace buffer. > > > Daniel Thompson (2): > trace: kdb: Fix kernel panic during ftdump > trace: kdb: Fix kernel livelock with empty buffers > > kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c | 21 +++++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.9.3