On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:14:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jan Kara <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Linus, please revert commit > > > > a2673b6e0406 fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() > > > > It fixes the oops but introduces a race which can leak event structure on > > group destruction. I'll fix the oops in a different way and it would > > basically undo what this patch did anyway. Thanks! > > Ok, it is reverted in my tree now (and doing a build before pushing it > out). However, that original commit was also marked for stable, so we > need to kill it there. > > Greg, is there some protocol to kill stable entries? I did *not* mark > the revert for stable, because I'm hoping the original never made it > into the queue anyway (it was committed last Friday), but I don't know > of any way to notify stable except this kind of "hey guys, do not > apply that particular patch".
That's the whole protocol, I'll go drop it from my queue now, it never made it into a stable release just yet. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
