Re: ftrace/perf_event leak

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 14:15 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for fixing this.
> > 
> > However, can we split this in two patches to ease the backport?
> > 
> > The lack of a module_put() after perf_trace_init() failure is there for a while
> > (the backport needs to start in 2.6.32).
> > 
> > But the lack of a module_put in the destroy path needs a .35 backport only.
> 
> I don't think it really needs two patches. Just notify stable (and 
> Greg KH in particular) about the backport requirements. Greg can 
> handle it ;)

Well, Greg certainly has more than enough to handle, so if there's 
different chunks with different -stable vectors then it would be most 
helpful to him to split things up!

Manually trying to split up patches is both error-prone and 
stress-inducing.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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