On 12/26/18 7:02 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 03:35, Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> a0fc5578f1d (efi: Let kmemleak ignore false positives) is no longer >> needed due to efi_mem_reserve_persistent() uses __get_free_page() >> instead where kmemelak is not able to track regardless. Otherwise, >> kernel reported "kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at >> 0xffff801060ef0000 as Black" >> >> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> > > Why are you sending this to -mmotm? > > Andrew, please disregard this patch. This is EFI/tip material. Well, I'd like to primarily develop on the -mmotm tree as it fits in a sweet-spot where the mainline is too slow and linux-next is too chaotic. The bug was reproduced and the patch was tested on -mmotm. If for every bugs people found in -mmtom, they have to check out the corresponding sub-system tree and reproduce/verify the bug over there, that is quite a burden to bear. That's why sub-system maintainers are copied on those patches, so they can decide to fix directly in the sub-system tree instead of -mmotm, and then it will propagate to -mmotm one way or another.