Re: Stable branches missing ed7a01fd3fd7

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> On 18 Sep 2019, at 13:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:17:59AM +0200, Håkon Bugge wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>> 
>> 
>> Commit 00313983cda6 ("RDMA/nldev: provide detailed CM_ID information") is in the following stable releases:
>> 
>>  stable/linux-4.17.y
>>  stable/linux-4.18.y
>>  stable/linux-4.19.y
>>  stable/linux-4.20.y
>>  stable/linux-5.0.y
>>  stable/linux-5.1.y
>>  stable/linux-5.2.y
>>  stable/linux-5.3.y
>>  stable/master
> 
> It was part of the 4.17 release, so yes, of course it is in all later
> releases.
> 
>> It has a potential for a big leak of task_struct's, and if the case is hit, the number of task_struct entries in /proc/slabinfo increases rapidly.
>> 
>> The fix, ed7a01fd3fd7 ("RDMA/restrack: Release task struct which was hold by CM_ID object"), is in the following stable releases:
>> 
>>  stable/linux-4.20.y
>>  stable/linux-5.0.y
>>  stable/linux-5.1.y
>>  stable/linux-5.2.y
>>  stable/linux-5.3.y
>>  stable/master
> 
> It was part of the 4.20 release, so yes, it will be in all releases
> newer than that.
> 
>> Hence, this commit needs to be included in 4-17..4.19.
> 
> Given there is only one "active" kernel branch you are looking at here,
> that means it should only go into 4.19.y, right?

Yes, you are right. I should have read the collateral first, kernel.org/releases.html :-)


Thxs, Håkon






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