2014-04-10 19:51:30

by Greg KH

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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rsi: Fix a potential memory leak in rsi_set_channel()

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:46:12PM -0400, Andev wrote:
> Adding Greg KH,

Why do I care about this?



2014-04-10 20:13:35

by Christian Engelmayer

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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rsi: Fix a potential memory leak in rsi_set_channel()

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:01:35 -0400, Andev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:46:12PM -0400, Andev wrote:
> >> Adding Greg KH,
> >
> > Why do I care about this?
> >
>
> I am not sure if this needs to be applied to stable too. Should I have
> cc'ed stable@?
>

Besides what Dan pointed out, this driver has just been pulled recently and afaik
is not included in v3.14. see http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg276519.html

Regards,
Christian


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2014-04-10 20:07:54

by Dan Carpenter

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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rsi: Fix a potential memory leak in rsi_set_channel()

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:01:35PM -0400, Andev wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:46:12PM -0400, Andev wrote:
> >> Adding Greg KH,
> >
> > Why do I care about this?
> >
>
> I am not sure if this needs to be applied to stable too. Should I have
> cc'ed stable@?

Read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

But for netdev, then Dave M. maintains a queue of patches which go to
stable. So this would go through Dave's stable queue and he forwards
them to Greg.

regards,
dan carpenter


2014-04-10 20:01:36

by Andev

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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rsi: Fix a potential memory leak in rsi_set_channel()

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:46:12PM -0400, Andev wrote:
>> Adding Greg KH,
>
> Why do I care about this?
>

I am not sure if this needs to be applied to stable too. Should I have
cc'ed stable@?

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Pratapa Rudra