From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 04/06] mptfusion: mptctl_release is required in mptctl.c Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:19:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20110203171930.GA11533@kroah.com> References: <20110203100250.GE23502@lsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:32995 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756606Ab1BCRVu (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:21:50 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110203100250.GE23502@lsi.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Kashyap, Desai" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, Sathya.Prakash@lsi.com, Eric.Moore@lsi.com, stable@kernel.org On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:33:00PM +0530, Kashyap, Desai wrote: > > Added missing release callback for file_operations mptctl_fops. > Without release callback there will be never freed. It remains on > mptctl's eent list even after the file is closed and released. > > Relavent RHEL bugzilla is 660871 > > Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai > --- This is NOT the way to get patches into a stable kernel release. Please read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do it properly. thanks, greg k-h