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SubjectRe: ftrace/perf_event leak
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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 ;)

-- Steve




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