Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:45:48 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path" has been added to staging queue |
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:40:09 -0700 Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:54:02 -0700 Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> wrote: > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled > > > > > > memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path > > > > > > to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree > > > which can be found at: > > > > hm, why. > > Because it said "Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.8]", making me think > the author specifically wanted it to be applied to 3.8-stable.
Damn, so it did, sorry. Your version removed that line.
I don't know why I did that - afaict problems can only occur when kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) fails, and that's exceedingly unlikely.
> > Now, I will freely admit that I may have made a mistake. But please be > > aware that you are taking a path which I have already considered and > > rejected. So a little extra care is warranted for akpm patches, please. > > I'll try to watch out for them.
Thanks.
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