linux-kernel - Re: Commits missed for stable

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Message-ID: <20111011142006.GA18281@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:20:06 -0600
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>
Subject: Re: Commits missed for stable

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:45:38AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> It's come to my attention that a bug that was fixed by:
> 
> 43dd61c9a09bd413e837df829e6bfb42159be52a
> ftrace: Fix regression of :mod:module function enabling
> 
> 
> Exists in the -rt kernel. As the -rt kernel is based off of 3.0.6, this
> means that the bug also exists in the stable tree. Without the fix, the
> kernel will crash if the root user tries to use the :mod: functionality
> of ftrace.
> 
> I also believe that the commit:
> 
> 
> f7bc8b61f65726ff98f52e286b28e294499d7a08
> ftrace: Fix regression where ftrace breaks when modules are loaded
> 
> is missing from both stable and -rt as well.
> 
> Greg, can you add the above two commits to the stable branch.

Both now queued up, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h
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