Re: Patch "percpu: don't forget to free the temporary struct pcpu_alloc_info" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 01:41:01PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     percpu: don't forget to free the temporary struct pcpu_alloc_info
>> to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
>>     https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kernel.org_git_-3Fp-3Dlinux_kernel_git_stable_stable-2Dqueue.git-3Ba-3Dsummary&d=DwIBAg&c=udBTRvFvXC5Dhqg7UHpJlPps3mZ3LRxpb6__0PomBTQ&r=bUtaaC9mlBij4OjEG_D-KPul_335azYzfC4Rjgomobo&m=qnNDf4IeHRQ_ffqQXDeVcI9CCT5Pq7EmTmp5xbKWg-I&s=KgCwQ9E3kx6oTOuZ75TsmUM6dqxn_zrSgFwENCasLi8&e=
>>
>> The filename of the patch is:
>>      percpu-don-t-forget-to-free-the-temporary-struct-pcpu_alloc_info.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
>>
>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>
>If you consider this patch worthy enough for the stable tree, then you
>should also pick commit abee210500ed otherwise the CRIS architecture
>will regress.

In this case I'd rather just drop this commit, at least until this
issue is fixed (rather than ducttaped) upstream. Thanks Nicolas!

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha



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