Re: Patch "mnt: Fix a memory stomp in umount" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:00:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So this one isn't technically needed. It turns out the memory stomp can't
> actually happen, because while the code is ugly and wrong, the hlist_del_init
> will actually fix things up almost by accident. Although it might even have
> been on purpose by Al originally.
> 
> So I'm not sure it needs back porting. It's *probably* a good idea, but the bug
> wasn't as bad as originally thought.
> 
> Al added to cc just to keep him in the loop. It might be worth back porting
> just to keep stable similar to head wrt this very confusing code. Al, comments?

I think it's probably worth keeping in sync just to keep the confusion
to a minimum, unless Al objects.

thanks,

greg k-h
--
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



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]