From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ftrace/perf_event leak
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:59:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283349585.2356.1.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100901121518.GA5378@nowhere>
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 14:15 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Thanks for fixing this.
>
> However, can we split this in two patches to ease the backport?
>
> The lack of a module_put() after perf_trace_init() failure is there for a while
> (the backport needs to start in 2.6.32).
>
> But the lack of a module_put in the destroy path needs a .35 backport only.
I don't think it really needs two patches. Just notify stable (and
Greg KH in particular) about the backport requirements. Greg can handle
it ;)
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-01 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 8:42 Avi Kivity
2010-09-01 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-01 9:26 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-01 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-01 9:38 ` Li Zefan
2010-09-01 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-01 10:38 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-01 11:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-01 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-01 12:15 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-09-01 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-09-01 17:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-02 1:20 ` Li Zefan
2010-09-09 19:45 ` [tip:perf/core] perf, trace: Fix module leak tip-bot for Li Zefan
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