Re: [PATCH] slub/memcg: Cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 20 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to those
> > slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane conversion
> > to and from ASCII
> 
> Exactly..
> 
> >, but that's too large for a hot fix.
> 
> What made this such a hot fix?  Looks like this crap has been in
> for quite a while.
 
Well, having something in tree which uses stale or uninitialized buffers
does justify a hot fix which can be easily backported to stable.

Thanks,

	tglx