On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:33:14AM +0200, Jouni Högander wrote: > Hello, > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak > > > > to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > net-sysfs-fix-reference-count-leak.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > This patch shouldn't be taken into 4.4 or 4.9 stable branches. Memory > leak it's fixing doesn't exist in 4.4 or 4.9. It's introduced by these two > patches which are not merged into 4.4 or 4.9 branches: Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped this from both 4.4.y and 4.9.y trees. greg k-h