Re: Commits missed for stable

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 11 2011 - 10:21:19 EST


On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:45:38AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> It's come to my attention that a bug that was fixed by:
>
> 43dd61c9a09bd413e837df829e6bfb42159be52a
> ftrace: Fix regression of :mod:module function enabling
>
>
> Exists in the -rt kernel. As the -rt kernel is based off of 3.0.6, this
> means that the bug also exists in the stable tree. Without the fix, the
> kernel will crash if the root user tries to use the :mod: functionality
> of ftrace.
>
> I also believe that the commit:
>
>
> f7bc8b61f65726ff98f52e286b28e294499d7a08
> ftrace: Fix regression where ftrace breaks when modules are loaded
>
> is missing from both stable and -rt as well.
>
> Greg, can you add the above two commits to the stable branch.

Both now queued up, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h
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