On Friday 04 December 2015 17:30:31 Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:13:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I think that would be best. Do you want me to send that patch, or do
> > you prefer to do it yourself? In theory that patch should also go into 
> > stable
> > kernels, but I suspect nobody who still owns a machine that is able to run
> > this code will ever upgrade to a stable release, so we probably don't need
> > that.
> 
> Probably better if it goes through ppc tree - the only relationship it has
> to VFS is broken calls of kill_fasync() in now-removed code...

Right.

>  Something like this, perhaps?
>
> [spufs] get rid of broken fasync stuff
>  
> In all the years it's been in the tree it had never been used by
> anything - it would instantly trigger BUG_ON() in fs/fcntl.c due
> to bogus band argument passed to kill_fasync().  Since nobody
> had ever used it in ten years, let's just rip it out and be
> done with that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> ---

Looks all good, thanks!

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
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