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SubjectRe: [tip:tracing/syscalls] tracing/core: fix early free of cpumasks

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This never made it into 2.6.29, nor do I see it yet in mainline.
> > >
> > > This can cause unpredictable results with ftrace. We are freeing a
> > > cpu mask that will be later used.
> >
> > Yes ... but CONFIG_OFFSTACK is only possible as a debug option right
> > now. So it's far less serious of an issue, it needs 2-3 unlikely
> > features to be combined.
>
> And unfortunately for Johannes, he must have had all those
> features configured :-/ He spent pretty much the entire day trying
> to figure out why ftrace was broken.

Okay - will forward the fix to -stable once it's upstream.

Ingo


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