linux-kernel - Question about -rc and stable patches

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:28:06 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Question about -rc and stable patches

Hi Linus and Greg,

Recently I have been sent patches that fix a bug in the enabling of
ftrace function tracer, where if something goes wrong with the
enabling (or disabling), it can cause a crash of the computer.

Now, my question is, the bug requires something to go wrong at a point
where I've never seen it go wrong before. But if you inject a problem
(code that makes it fail on the 1000th iteration), sure enough, the
recovery is not correct and the machine crashes.

Is this fix something that I should push to -rc as well as to stable?
Or should I just add this to my 3.15 queue, as I have never heard of
someone triggering it. The only report is from someone that was testing
the failure cases.

Thanks,

-- Steve
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