[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path" has been added to staging queue

[Li Zefan]

On 2013/7/17 8:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:40:09 -0700 Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 16:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:54:02 -0700 Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
>>>>
>>>>     memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path
>>>>
>>>> to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
>>>> which can be found at:
>>>
>>> hm, why.
>>
>> Because it said "Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> [3.8]", making me think
>> the author specifically wanted it to be applied to 3.8-stable.
> 
> Damn, so it did, sorry.  Your version removed that line.
> 
> I don't know why I did that - afaict problems can only occur when
> kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) fails, and that's exceedingly unlikely.
> 

I added the stable tag to this and the other patch, because the bugs were
regressions introduced in recent kernels, and Michal sugguest we may want
to backport them (but not in a strong feeling).

But surely the bug is extreamly unlikely, and seems we currently want to
be more strictly on what patches should go into stable, I think it's fine
to drop it from stable.