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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.12 mainline crash in n_tty_receive_buf_common when using g_serial
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:43:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200108134336.GA2377543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAfyv35wRyoZMjep=DPOGNk_gX-GxoKknmU1Gu97dUvcUaAEgw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:38:08PM +0100, Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:25 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 12:49:52PM +0100, Belisko Marek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we're using mainline 4.12 kernel (bit too old I know) on am335x board.
> >
> > That's _MUCH_ too old and obsolete and broken, there's nothing the
> > community can do about this, sorry.  Please update to a modern kernel
> > version, like 5.4, and we will be glad to help.
> Yes I know it's old but it's behaving fine just hit this issue
> recently. Will take a look if we can bump to something latest.
> >
> > If you are stuck at 4.12 due to a SoC vendor issue, please contact that
> > vendor for support as you are already paying for it from them.
> No it' no vendor kernel it's really mainline (from yocto build).

Then there really is no reason to be using such an old and totally
insecure kernel version.  That's almost a liability :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-08 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-08 11:49 4.12 mainline crash in n_tty_receive_buf_common when using g_serial Belisko Marek
2020-01-08 12:25 ` Greg KH
2020-01-08 12:38   ` Belisko Marek
2020-01-08 13:43     ` Greg KH [this message]

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