linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak

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Message-ID: <20140918111634.1bb56716@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:16:34 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak_free() for cgroup
 deallocations.

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:16:39 -0400
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> 
> Should this go into -stable?  I'm inclined to say no, this has been
> busted since Steve's other kmemleak fix since 2011, and that change
> also didn't go into -stable.

It only breaks kmem tests, and since nobody noticed recently, I don't
think it needs to go into stable.

On the other hand, it's a very non intrusive fix that I highly doubt
will cause other regressions, so it may not be bad to add a stable tag
to it.

-- Steve
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