[PATCH -next] ashmem: Fix ashmem_shrink deadlock.
David Rientjes
rientjes at google.com
Wed May 1 15:54:49 UTC 2013
On Wed, 1 May 2013, Robert Love wrote:
> Don't acquire ashmem_mutex in ashmem_shrink if we've somehow recursed into the
> shrinker code from within ashmem. Just bail out, avoiding a deadlock. This is
> fine, as ashmem cache pruning is advisory anyhow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rlove at google.com>
Any reason not to send this to stable at vger.kernel.org if it fixes an
observable deadlock? (It's annotated to be applied to linux-next, but I
don't see any differences between it and Linus's tree.)
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