Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] xen-netback: double free on unload

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:31:31 +0100 (BST)

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:20:08 +0300
>>
>> > There is a typo here, "i" vs "j", so we would crash on module_exit().
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Please always explicitly state the tree for which a patch is
>> applicable.
>>
>> Here I figured it out by trial an error, trying to apply it
>> to 'net' (where it failed) and then 'net-next' (where it
>> applied cleanly).
>>
>> I should never have to play patch monkey games like that, you
>> need to tell me where a patch is targetted.
> 
> Shouldn't one always, by default, work on linux-next?

Bug fixes, especially serious ones, should be targetted at 'net'.

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