Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:32:53 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: ftrace/perf_event leak |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 14:15 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > Thanks for fixing this. > > > > However, can we split this in two patches to ease the backport? > > > > The lack of a module_put() after perf_trace_init() failure is there for a while > > (the backport needs to start in 2.6.32). > > > > But the lack of a module_put in the destroy path needs a .35 backport only. > > I don't think it really needs two patches. Just notify stable (and > Greg KH in particular) about the backport requirements. Greg can > handle it ;)
Well, Greg certainly has more than enough to handle, so if there's different chunks with different -stable vectors then it would be most helpful to him to split things up!
Manually trying to split up patches is both error-prone and stress-inducing.
Thanks,
Ingo
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