Re: [PATCH] net: don't forget to free sk_filter

Keller, Jacob E
2013-11-08T00:56:09Z

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 11:28 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 20:19 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>
> > When you send v2 with Alexei's feedback, please also be more specific
> > in your subject like "net: x86: bpf: don't forget to free sk_filter"
> > or the like. Also it's enough to say 'This memory leak was introduced
> > by commit d45ed4a4e3 ("net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq")'
> > instead of copying the whole log. Anyways, for v2 with feedback included
> > then:
>
> Actually, the new way [1] of doing this would be to use the 'Fixes:' tag
> as in :
>
> Fixes: <12 digits SHA1> ("net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq")
>
> [1] As discussed at last Kernel Summit
>
> Example in
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6920a1bd037374a632d585de127b6f945199dcb8
>
>
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Has there been any mention of a forthcoming patch
to ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches which documents this?

Thanks,
Jake