ACK/Cmnt: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "locking/mutex: clear MUTEX_FLAGS if wait_list is empty due to signal"

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 28/07/2021 17:02, Stefan Bader wrote:
> This reverts commit 2e1eb7b6e1e0e4bd988b0bbcbd96e2fee205885b, it seems
> to depend on some additional changes to locking and we have reports of
> strange corruption happening in various cases. Not really something that
> can be pinpointed but a chance that something related to locking is
> causing this.
> 

The "sched" attribute removal in original upstream patch seems like a
non-related part of patch. Probably should be split to separate one.

Anyway, the upstream commit even though marked as fixing old bug, was
not backported to v4.14 and v4.4, so maybe we also shouldn't take it. :)


Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>



Best regards,
Krzysztof