Hi David,
On 9/6/2010 10:11 PM, David Miller wrote:
>
> From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
> Date: Mon,  6 Sep 2010 05:06:19 +0200
>
> > We cannot use spinlock when kmalloc is invoked with
> > GFP_KERNEL flag because it can sleep.
> > So this patch reviews the usage of spinlock within the
> > stmmac_resume function avoing this bug.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
>
> Applied, but you are extremely guilty of the sin of omission
> here.
>
> Why in the world did you not at least CC: Jiri, the person
> who reported this problem?  You should do that at a minimum
> when someone reports a problem with code you are fixing.
>
You are right and I'm awfully sorry for this (sorry Jiri!).
>
> And in this case he definitely deserves a
>
> Reported-by:
>
> tag in the commit message as well.
>
> Please don't fail to acknowledge a reporter's efforts like
> this ever again.
>

This will never happen.
I've attached the patch reviewed as well.

I hope this has not hurt Jiri.

Regards,
Peppe

P.S. I'm waiting for my third baby so I'm quite stressed and busy in
these days.
I wanted fixed the issue spotted by Jiri but I was too fast to send the
patch.
I hope this can help to save me ;-)