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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:28:06 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Question about -rc and stable patches
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Hi Linus and Greg,

Recently I have been sent patches that fix a bug in the enabling of
ftrace function tracer, where if something goes wrong with the
enabling (or disabling), it can cause a crash of the computer.

Now, my question is, the bug requires something to go wrong at a point
where I've never seen it go wrong before. But if you inject a problem
(code that makes it fail on the 1000th iteration), sure enough, the
recovery is not correct and the machine crashes.

Is this fix something that I should push to -rc as well as to stable?
Or should I just add this to my 3.15 queue, as I have never heard of
someone triggering it. The only report is from someone that was testing
the failure cases.

Thanks,

-- Steve