At Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:27:43 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > Am 18.11.2014 um 18:12 schrieb gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > net: ppp: Don't call bpf_prog_create() in ppp_lock > > > > to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > 3.17 did not show the problem for me. That does not mean that the patch > is not suitable for 3.17, it just means that strictly speaking it is not > really necessary. Usually you doesn't hit it on 3.17 or earlier unless memory gets tight, but the bug is certainly there :) > But I relly do not know anything about the technical issues, I just > reported the crash that was in 3.18-rc On 3.18, it was changed to vmalloc() so it became more obvious (it explicitly issues BUG_ON()). Takashi > > > The filename of the patch is: > > net-ppp-don-t-call-bpf_prog_create-in-ppp_lock.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > > > From foo@baz Tue Nov 18 09:07:25 PST 2014 > > From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:50:21 +0100 > > Subject: net: ppp: Don't call bpf_prog_create() in ppp_lock > > > > From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit 5748eb8f8e989a9da1ac7c96dc73d68cbdedf7df ] > > Best regards, > > Stefan > -- > Stefan Seyfried > Linux Consultant & Developer -- GPG Key: 0x731B665B > > B1 Systems GmbH > Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de > GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html