From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755851Ab3AXV5S (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:57:18 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f48.google.com ([209.85.160.48]:33629 "EHLO mail-pb0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752278Ab3AXV5K (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:57:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:57:07 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Martin Mokrejs Cc: Alan Stern , Sarah Sharp , LKML , USB list Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: XHCI: fix memory leak of URB-private data Message-ID: <20130124215707.GA30414@kroah.com> References: <5101AD55.2000008@fold.natur.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5101AD55.2000008@fold.natur.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:53:25PM +0100, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi Sarah and Alan, > I just saw 3.7.5 patches announced by Greg but I don't see this path in there. > And, don't know but maybe this applies to older stable kernels as well? > Where will this patch posted originally to linux-usb land? > > Ah, is that because the email was actually NOT sent to "stable@"? ;-) No. It's because the patch isn't in Linus's tree yet, which is one of the requirements for a patch to be able to get into the stable kernel releases. Please read the kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for more details if you are curious. Hope this helps, greg k-h