From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:53:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050715155333.GA387@linuxtx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050714094516.A1847@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:45:17AM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > I think the patch is too risky for stable. I had even my doubts
> > for mainline.
>
> hmm.. Main reason why Andrew posted this for stable series is because of
> the memory leak issue mentioned in the patch changeset comments...
>
I would say if Andi has concerns for this stable series, we should indeed
leave it out. That said, I will be testing this patch a bit further
myself, and because it does address a real memory leak issue, we should
consider it or another fix for stable 2.6.12.4.
Justin M. Forbes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-15 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-13 18:41 [00/11] -stable review Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:42 ` [02/11] [NETFILTER]: revert nf_reset change Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:42 ` [03/11] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value Greg KH
[not found] ` <20050713184130.GA9330-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [01/11] If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [04/11] [SHAPER] fix Shaper driver lossage in 2.6.12 Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver Greg KH
2005-07-13 22:01 ` Francois Romieu
2005-07-13 22:13 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-07-15 19:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-07-17 21:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-24 16:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [06/11] tpm breaks 8139cp Greg KH
2005-07-13 19:09 ` John W. Linville
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [07/11] v4l cx88 hue offset fix Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [08/11] coverity: tty_ldisc_ref return null check Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [uml-devel] [09/11] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone" Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [10/11] fix semaphore handling in __unregister_chrdev_region Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-13 20:47 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-07-14 16:45 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-07-15 15:53 ` Justin M. Forbes [this message]
2005-07-16 2:17 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-07-16 4:25 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-16 5:42 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2005-07-13 22:05 ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-13 22:36 ` [stable] " Greg KH
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