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SubjectRe: [PATCH] slub/memcg: Cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes
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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