* Re: Patch "scsi: target/core: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()" has been added to the 4.20-stable tree
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@ 2019-02-21 11:44 ` Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2019-02-21 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: weiyongjun1, stable-commits
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:43:22AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> scsi: target/core: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
>
> to the 4.20-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> scsi-target-core-use-kmem_cache_free-instead-of-kfre.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.20 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
>
>
> commit d95e5d7f77bae4d48a66cda1341c934790898c67
> Author: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
> Date: Mon Dec 17 12:19:53 2018 +0000
>
> scsi: target/core: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
>
> [ Upstream commit 8b2db98e814a5ec45e8800fc22ca9000ae0a517b ]
>
> memory allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() should be freed using
> kmem_cache_free(), not kfree().
>
> Fixes: ad669505c4e9 ("scsi: target/core: Make sure that target_wait_for_sess_cmds() waits long enough")
Based on this tag, it also needs to go to 4.19.y. I'll go queue it up
there...
greg k-h
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