Messages in this thread | | | From | André Goddard Rosa <> | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:52:45 -0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Fix file descriptor leak on user-space processes and cleanup |
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Hi, Andrew!
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:04:22 -0300 Andr__ Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Fix a file descriptor leak on user-space processes and perform a cleanup, >> reducing the code size: >> text data bss dec hex filename >> 9949 72 16 10037 2735 ipc/mqueue-BEFORE.o >> 9885 72 16 9973 26f5 ipc/mqueue-AFTER.o >> >> Andr__ Goddard Rosa (6): >> mqueue: remove unneeded info->messages initialization >> mqueue: apply mathematics distributivity on mq_bytes calculation >> mqueue: simplify do_open() error handling >> mqueue: only set error codes if they are really necessary >> mqueue: fix typo "failues" -> "failures" >> mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes > > Fixing the leak is far more important than the other five patches, and > we'll want to backport the leak fix into earlier kernels. So the > bugfix patch should have been the first in the series!
Sure, thank you for that, I'll consider your good advice.
> So I've reordered the patches in that fashion and shall tag "mqueue: > fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes" as needing > -stable backporting. > > The patches apply and build OK with that reordering, but please do > double-check it, thanks. >
I have double checked and they look good; thanks for the follow-up patch pleasing checkpatch. :)
Do I need to send another patch adding the Acked-by's or is it done by email system automatically?
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