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SubjectRe: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ?
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On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 13:14 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> > commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba
> > Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com>
> > Date: Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800
> >
> > sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval()
> >
> > Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong
> > value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a
> > candidate for stable kernel.
> >
> > The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace
> > programs? As the changelog says:
> >
> > [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a
> > slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
>
> It appears to have caused no trouble.
>
> So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels:
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

I've queued this up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
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