From: Anton Volkov <avol...@ispras.ru> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:53:51 +0300
> The synchronization type that was used earlier to guard the loop that > deletes unused log buffers may have lead to a situation that prevents > any thread from going through the loop. > > The patch deletes previously used synchronization mechanism and moves > the loop under the spin_lock so the similar cases won't be feasible in > the future. > > Found by by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). > > Signed-off-by: Anton Volkov <avol...@ispras.ru> This patch doesn't apply at all. It's probably been corrupted by your email client.