From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751943Ab3AXWSR (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:18:17 -0500 Received: from fold.natur.cuni.cz ([195.113.57.32]:34255 "HELO fold.natur.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755756Ab3AXWSF (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:18:05 -0500 Message-ID: <5101B31A.1050408@fold.natur.cuni.cz> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:18:02 +0100 From: Martin Mokrejs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Martin Mokrejs , Alan Stern , Sarah Sharp , LKML , USB list Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: XHCI: fix memory leak of URB-private data References: <5101AD55.2000008@fold.natur.cuni.cz> <20130124215707.GA30414@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130124215707.GA30414@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:53:25PM +0100, Martin Mokrejs wrote: >> Hi Sarah and Alan, >> I just saw 3.7.5 patches announced by Greg but I don't see this path in there. >> And, don't know but maybe this applies to older stable kernels as well? >> Where will this patch posted originally to linux-usb land? >> >> Ah, is that because the email was actually NOT sent to "stable@"? ;-) > > No. It's because the patch isn't in Linus's tree yet, which is one of > the requirements for a patch to be able to get into the stable kernel > releases. > > Please read the kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for > more details if you are curious. Thank you Greg! Aside from the fact that I do not know how much serious a memleak is and whether it is eligible for -stable. Other than that, it was helpful to read the file. Will see what happens. Meanwhile will continue running my patched kernel. ;-) Martin