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Date:	Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:24:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	dborkman@...hat.com, avagin@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ast@...mgrid.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't forget to free sk_filter

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:28:18 -0800

> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 20:19 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> 
>> When you send v2 with Alexei's feedback, please also be more specific
>> in your subject like "net: x86: bpf: don't forget to free sk_filter"
>> or the like. Also it's enough to say 'This memory leak was introduced
>> by commit d45ed4a4e3 ("net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq")'
>> instead of copying the whole log. Anyways, for v2 with feedback included
>> then:
> 
> Actually, the new way [1] of doing this would be to use the 'Fixes:' tag
> as in :
> 
> Fixes: <12 digits SHA1> ("net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq")
> 
> [1] As discussed at last Kernel Summit
> 
> Example in 
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6920a1bd037374a632d585de127b6f945199dcb8

Indeed, and I'm totally fine with this new mechanism too, please use it.
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