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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 12:13:26 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [v3.0 stable version][PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer
 if rb_set_head_page() fails
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:16:43AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer
> pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does
> not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and
> return NULL, as this should never happen.
> 
> But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function
> can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be
> fixed.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |    9 +++++++--
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I don't understand why you sent these to stable@ right now, I don't see
them in Linus's tree, so why are they needed here?

Care to resend them when they hit Linus's tree?

thanks,

greg k-h