From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.12] block: fix memory leak in in bio_map_user_iov()
Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 13:50:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc43af47fa75a7fe4bea41fda91dd2e49723243c.camel@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026050551-rice-cider-db2e@gregkh>
On Tue, 2026-05-05 at 11:57 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree. Please read:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> for how to do this properly.
In this particular case, "it or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linux
mainline (upstream)" is hardly possible because related stuff under block/
was massively redesigned since them. So I would prefer to wait for feedback
from block subsystem maintainers before doing anything else.
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-05 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-05 9:45 [PATCH 6.12] block: fix memory leak in in bio_map_user_iov() Dmitry Antipov
2026-05-05 9:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-05-05 10:50 ` Dmitry Antipov [this message]
2026-05-07 18:52 ` Fedor Pchelkin
2026-05-08 8:30 ` Dmitry Antipov
2026-05-08 11:16 ` Fedor Pchelkin
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