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Message-ID: <1383872168.9330.23.camel@jekeller-desk1.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 00:56:09 +0000
From:	"Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org.#.3.12" <stable@...r.kernel.org.#.3.12>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't forget to free sk_filter

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 11:28 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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Has there been any mention of a forthcoming patch
to ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches which documents this?

Thanks,
Jake

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