linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] poll/select: initialize triggered field of struct poll

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Message-ID: <4A8762C7.7030505@kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:37:11 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Guillaume Knispel <gknispel@...formatique.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll/select: initialize triggered field of struct poll_wqueues

Hello,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> OK, thanks.
> 
> I tagged this for -stable backporting.  That isn't strictly needed, as
> there's no particular harm caused here.  But using an uninitialised
> variable in the core poll/select code is pretty gross.

Yes, I was thinking about putting this for -stable too.  It's not
critical but still.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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