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[72.200.102.19]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-11f446460c8sm22914800c88.10.2025.12.16.22.05.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:05:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:05:27 -0700 From: Will Rosenberg To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, Oliver Rosenberg , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.12 240/354] kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node Message-ID: References: <20251216111320.896758933@linuxfoundation.org> <20251216111329.608256836@linuxfoundation.org> <2025121740-utility-transform-f252@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2025121740-utility-transform-f252@gregkh> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 06:17:24AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Please don't use lkml.org, we don't control it and it often goes down. > Please use lore.kernel.org instead. > > Also, this was totally context-less, what do you want me to do here? > Drop this? change this? Wait? Something else? Sorry about that, here is the link from lore.kernel.org: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251217060107.4171558-1-whrosenb@asu.edu/ This patch should be dropped (or replaced). The patch is faulty and introduces a new bug, as discussed in the link above. The patch should also be droped for 6.6-stable, 6.17-stable, and 6.18-stable.