From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: 石洋 <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Apply Patch "locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test" to 3.15+ stable release
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 13:32:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170910113222.GA14442@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f9326a1-2220-4234-c673-5f3eba59dee2@alibaba-inc.com>
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 05:31:15AM +0800, 石洋 wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> The patch "locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test" (commit
> f4dbba591945dc301c302672adefba9e2ec08dc5) fixed a kernel memory leak in
> locktorture, which came from me originally. It was just merged into 4.11 of
> Linus's tree, however, the patch is applicable to 3.15 till 4.10 since the
> stable mailing list was omitted in the original review.
>
> Could you please apply the patch to 3.15+ stable release? 3.15/.16/.17 just
> have writer statistics, reader statistics was added since 3.18.
>
> BTW, my linaro email account in the SOB is not valid anymore, please cc
> yang.s@alibaba-inc.com if needed.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2017-09-06 21:31 Apply Patch "locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test" to 3.15+ stable release 石洋
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