linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: XHCI: fix memory leak of URB-private data

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Message-ID: <5101B31A.1050408@fold.natur.cuni.cz>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:18:02 +0100
From:	Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...d.natur.cuni.cz>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...d.natur.cuni.cz>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: XHCI: fix memory leak of URB-private data

Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:53:25PM +0100, Martin Mokrejs wrote:
>> Hi Sarah and Alan,
>>   I just saw 3.7.5 patches announced by Greg but I don't see this path in there.
>> And, don't know but maybe this applies to older stable kernels as well?
>> Where will this patch posted originally to linux-usb land?
>>
>> Ah, is that because the email was actually NOT sent to "stable@"? ;-)
> 
> No.  It's because the patch isn't in Linus's tree yet, which is one of
> the requirements for a patch to be able to get into the stable kernel
> releases.
> 
> Please read the kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for
> more details if you are curious.

Thank you Greg!

Aside from the fact that I do not know how much serious a memleak is and whether
it is eligible for -stable. Other than that, it was helpful to read the file.
Will see what happens. Meanwhile will continue running my patched kernel. ;-)
Martin
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