+ dma-buf-free-dmabuf-name-in-dma_buf_release.patch added to -mm tree

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Feb 27 04:20:33 UTC 2020


On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:36:26 +0100 Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:29 AM Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Andrew,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 07:25, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The patch titled
> > >      Subject: dma-buf: free dmabuf->name in dma_buf_release()
> > > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> > >      dma-buf-free-dmabuf-name-in-dma_buf_release.patch
> >
> > Thanks for taking this patch via -mm during my absence (I'm just
> > returning from a bit of an illness). If there are other dma-buf
> > patches on your radar that you'd like to take via the mm tree, please
> > let me know and I can provide the necessary Acks.
> > Else I will take them in via drm-misc as usual.
> 
> I thought at least that for cases like these -mm is the last resort
> tree, so proper thing to do here is apply this fix to drm-misc-fixes
> and get it out there. -mm rebases, so will fall out again.

Yup, go ahead.  If a patch pops up in linux-next I'll autodrop by copy.

And please do give some thought to whether this should be cc:stable. 
If it's an unprivileged operation then hellyeah.




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