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[Mihai Dontu <mihai.dontu@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have sent an email about this to Ben and Greg. Seeing that
Precise/Quantal haven't picked up the patch yet, I'm hoping this way I
might accelerate the process. Thanks.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138004448323433

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Title:
  request to pull in an upstream bug fix for fanotify

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  There is an unfortunate bug in the fanotify implementation in pre 3.8
  kernels, where due to a race a multithreaded application could end up
  being hanged in an uninterruptible state.

  The fix has been around since March last year, but pushed to mainline
  in November. The patch in question is:
  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-
  stable.git/commit/fs/notify/fanotify?id=03a1cec1f17ac1a6041996b3e40f96b5a2f90e1b

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