Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 May 2017 22:01:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slub/memcg: Cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes |
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On Sat, 20 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to those > > slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane conversion > > to and from ASCII > > Exactly.. > > >, but that's too large for a hot fix. > > What made this such a hot fix? Looks like this crap has been in > for quite a while.
Well, having something in tree which uses stale or uninitialized buffers does justify a hot fix which can be easily backported to stable.
Thanks,
tglx
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