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

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Message-ID: <20130124215707.GA30414@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:57:07 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...d.natur.cuni.cz>
Cc:	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

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.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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