Re: [stable] [PATCH] ARCH 2.6.24.y: Fix 32-bit x86 MSI-Xallocation leakage

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 18:01:44 EST



* Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:22:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge, where
> > > MSI-X vector allocation will eventually fail. The cause is the new
> > > bit array tracking used vectors is not getting cleared properly on IRQ
> > > destruction on the 32-bit APIC code.
> >
> > Greg, please fix the commit message - this is a separate bug that
> > has nothing to do with the unification.
>
> What should I fix the commit message to be? I copied the same commit
> message that went into Linus's tree. We should be consistent :)

instead of:

This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge,

use:

This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 lguest merge,

or just:

This bug was introduced in 2.6.24,

:-)

Ingo
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