Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754857Ab2EPPRt (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 11:17:49 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:47005 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754201Ab2EPPRr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 11:17:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120516145032.GA1139@kroah.com> References: <1337108498-4104-1-git-send-email-js1304@gmail.com> <20120516145032.GA1139@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 00:17:46 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node() From: JoonSoo Kim To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Pekka Enberg , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 32 2012/5/16 Greg Kroah-Hartman : >> I read stable_kernel_rules.txt, this article tells me I must note >> upstream commit ID. >> Above patch is not included in upstream currently, so I can't find >> upstream commit ID. >> Is 'Acked-by from MAINTAINER' sufficient for submitting to stable-kernel? >> Is below format right for stable submission format? > > No. > > Please read the second item in the list that says: "Procedure for > submitting patches to the -stable tree" in the file, > Documentation/stable_kernel_rulest.txt. ?It states: > > ?- To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag > ? ? Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > ? in the sign-off area. Once the patch is merged it will be applied to > ? the stable tree without anything else needing to be done by the author > ? or subsystem maintainer. > > Does that help? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Thanks, very helpful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/