Re: [PATCH] USB: XHCI: fix memory leak of URB-private data

[Martin Mokrejs]

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
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