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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:08:33 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Will Rosenberg <whrosenb@asu.edu>
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	Oliver Rosenberg <olrose55@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.12 240/354] kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 11:05:27PM -0700, Will Rosenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 06:17:24AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Please don't use lkml.org, we don't control it and it often goes down.
> > Please use lore.kernel.org instead.
> > 
> > Also, this was totally context-less, what do you want me to do here?
> > Drop this?  change this?  Wait?  Something else?
> 
> Sorry about that, here is the link from lore.kernel.org:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251217060107.4171558-1-whrosenb@asu.edu/
> 
> This patch should be dropped (or replaced). The patch is faulty and
> introduces a new bug, as discussed in the link above. The patch
> should also be droped for 6.6-stable, 6.17-stable, and 6.18-stable.
> 

Ok, thanks, will go drop this from all stable queues for now.

greg k-h