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Re: 4.18.16: memory leak in sta_set_sinfo

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Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 10/22/2018 10:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 10:35 +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>>
>>>> commit 848e616e66d4592fe9afc40743d3504deb7632b4
>>>> Author: Stefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date:   Sun Sep 30 12:53:00 2018 +0200
>>>>
>>>>     cfg80211: fix wext-compat memory leak
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully that'll eventually propagate to stable.
>>>
>>> Good to know it's fixed, but "hopefully" makes me wonder,
>>> I'd love to hear the confirmation that it's been queued.
>>
>> Well, normally it works automatically when you have a Fixes tag, so I
>> don't usually try to queue anything manually. Maybe Greg has had his
>> hands full with the 4.19 release :-)
>
> Missed the memo. Does that mean Cc: to stable is no longer needed? It
> is still documented as such in
> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I haven't seen any memos either but in lot of cases having just Fixes
line seems to be enough to get the patch to stable releases. If someone
has any documentation about this, please do share.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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