From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix for memory leak in the wireless extensions layer
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181129125052.GL3149@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0ce06aa-9a9a-d763-4b29-57e976dc1cc4@lwfinger.net>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:49:21PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Is the fix for a memory leak in the wext compat layer queued for stable? It
> is in kernel:HEAD as commit 848e616e66d4592fe9afc40743d3504deb7632b4
> ("cfg80211: fix wext-compat memory leak")
>
> I just receiv3ed a complaint about a leak for a system that is running
> Ubuntu's kernel 4.19.
That would be very odd as commit
848e616e66d4592fe9afc40743d3504deb7632b4 is in 4.19, it was in 4.19-rc7.
> Unfortunately, this commit has a "fixes" line, but not a Cc for Stable.
It could have gone into the 4.18-stable tree, but that is now
end-of-life, sorry.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-29 12:50 UTC|newest]
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2018-10-31 18:49 Fix for memory leak in the wireless extensions layer Larry Finger
2018-11-29 12:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-11-29 15:18 ` Larry Finger
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