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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] rtc: Handle errors correctly in rtc_irq_set_state()
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:04:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110722150432.2370bcf2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110722091045.403648377@linutronix.de>

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:12:50 -0000
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> The code checks the correctness of the parameters, but unconditionally
> arms/disarms the hrtimer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org

The -stable maintainers will want to know why they should merge this.

The maintainers of other trees will wonder whether they should backport
it too.

To help them make these decision we should always provide a description
of the user-visible effects of the bug, please.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-22 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-22  9:12 [patch 0/3] rtc: Assorted bug fixes Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-22  9:12 ` [patch 1/3] rtc: Handle errors correctly in rtc_irq_set_state() Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-22 22:04   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-07-23  7:15     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-22  9:12 ` [patch 3/3] rtc: Limit frequency Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-22 22:05   ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-22 22:39     ` [stable] " Willy Tarreau
2011-08-05  3:39       ` Joshua Kinard
2011-08-05  9:04         ` John Stultz
2011-08-06  7:28           ` Joshua Kinard
2011-07-23  7:17     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-22  9:12 ` [patch 2/3] rtc: Fix hrtimer deadlock Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-22 22:11   ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-23  7:22     ` Thomas Gleixner

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