linux-kernel - Re: dm thin: reinstate missing mempool_free in cell_release

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Message-ID: <20120622152727.GA4196@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:27:27 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Joe Thornber <ejt@...hat.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: dm thin: reinstate missing mempool_free in cell_release_singleton

On Fri, Jun 22 2012 at 11:16am -0400,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:59:48AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > 3.3-stable pulled in upstream commit
> > 6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55 (dm thin: fix stacked bi_next usage)
> > 
> > But later in the 3.4 development window it was determined that that
> > commit introduced a significant leak.  The following upstream commit
> > fixes it (but unfortunately didn't cc: stable).
> 
> 3.3 is end-of-life, so there's not much I can do with the 3.3-stable
> tree anymore, sorry.  If there's any other tree I should apply this to
> that is active (i.e. 3.0 or 3.4), please let me know.

OK, no other active stable tree is affected, thanks.
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