Re: cdrecord deadlocks linux 2.6.8.1 (problem in setscheduler)

From: Chris Wright (chrisw@private)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 12:14:32 PDT 

* Crispin Cowan (crispin@private) wrote:
> We (Immunix) discovered this bug a few weeks ago. At first we thought it 
> was a bug in our SubDomain module, but then determined that any attempt 
> to printk from within the scheduler hook was at risk of locking the kernel.
> 
> John Johansen (cc'd) has prepared a patch that fixes the problem, and we 
> just yesterday sent it to Andrea Arcangeli (scheduler maintainer) for 
> comment.

Andrea isn't the scheduler maintainer.

> JJ, you wanna share your patch with the LSM list?

That would be nice.  Why wasn't that done in the first place?

thanks,
-chris
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