linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [patch 031/104] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names

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Message-Id: <200812091441.47332.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:41:46 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Jake Edge <jake@....net>, kristen.c.accardi@...el.com,
	matthew@....cx, Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 031/104] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names

On Friday, December 05, 2008 10:27 am Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:10:39PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > I found a memory leak that I introduced with the below patch.
> >
> > I sent the patch to Jesse a few days ago, but he hasn't pushed it
> > upstream yet.
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/2187/match=stop+leaking
> >
> > I did Cc: stable@...nel.org on it, but I'm guessing that since
> > it's not upstream yet, you guys never saw it.
> >
> > Anyhow, please pick it up for this round of .27-stable, else
> > we'll get a memory leak (while trying to work-around the
> > duplicate slot name issue).
>
> As much as I hate it, I really need to see the patch in Linus's tree
> before I can take it into -stable.
>
> So Jesse, can you please push this to Linus as soon as possible?
>
> Alex, thanks for letting me know about this.

Just sent the pull request, sorry for the delay.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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