Re: [PATCH 1/3] fsnotify: Fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:14:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Linus, please revert commit
> >
> > a2673b6e0406 fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()
> >
> > It fixes the oops but introduces a race which can leak event structure on
> > group destruction. I'll fix the oops in a different way and it would
> > basically undo what this patch did anyway. Thanks!
> 
> Ok, it is reverted in my tree now (and doing a build before pushing it
> out). However, that original commit was also marked for stable, so we
> need to kill it there.
> 
> Greg, is there some protocol to kill stable entries? I did *not* mark
> the revert for stable, because I'm hoping the original never made it
> into the queue anyway (it was committed last Friday), but I don't know
> of any way to notify stable except this kind of "hey guys, do not
> apply that particular patch".

That's the whole protocol, I'll go drop it from my queue now, it never
made it into a stable release just yet.

thanks,

greg k-h