Re: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jun 19 2019 - 13:14:30 EST


On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Raul Rangel wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:19:34AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:55:18AM -0600, Raul E Rangel wrote:
> > > I think we should cherry-pick 41e3efd07d5a02c80f503e29d755aa1bbb4245de
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/856512/ into 4.14. It fixes a
> > > potential resource leak when shutting down the request queue.
> >
> > Potential meaning "it does happen", or "it can happen if we do this", or
> > just "maybe it might happen, we really do not know?"
> It does happen if the AMD SDHCI patches are cherry-picked into 4.14.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/1/398

Why are those patches somehow being required to be added to 4.14.y? If
they are not added, is all fine?

thanks,

greg k-h