Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ARCH 2.6.24.y: Fix 32-bit x86 MSI-X allocation leakage

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:01:15 +0200

* Greg KH <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:22:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * PJ Waskiewicz <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > > This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge, where 
> > > MSI-X vector allocation will eventually fail.  The cause is the new 
> > > bit array tracking used vectors is not getting cleared properly on IRQ 
> > > destruction on the 32-bit APIC code.
> > 
> > Greg, please fix the commit message - this is a separate bug that 
> > has nothing to do with the unification.
> 
> What should I fix the commit message to be?  I copied the same commit 
> message that went into Linus's tree.  We should be consistent :)

instead of:

   This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge,

use:

   This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 lguest merge,

or just:

   This bug was introduced in 2.6.24,

:-)

	Ingo