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From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
To: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xhci-ring: Fix Null pointer dereference
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:50:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPybu_0gf3XKsBFsxGPptq9m588K81fdh1sbOgMWM+hDVaHiWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53FF0765.3050509@intel.com>

Hello

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2014 07:10 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>> Perhaps we could apply both patches to current tree and backport mine
>> to older kernels?
>>
>
> The already applied patch fixes many other issues than just this one.
> backporting it to stable < 3.13 turned out to not be that difficult, stable maintainers
> said they can do it themselves.

then I agree, there is absolutely no need for my patch :).

I have a broken gadget driver that was very good at triggering the
bug, I will try it out with your patch.


Thanks!

>
> Stable kernels prefer patches that are already upstream, as Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt states:
> "- It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream)."
>
> There is no need for the other patch anymore, not upstream nor to stable
>
> -Mathias
>



-- 
Ricardo Ribalda

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-28 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-26 15:47 [PATCH] xhci-ring: Fix Null pointer dereference Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-08-27 14:25 ` Mathias Nyman
2014-08-27 14:14   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-08-27 15:27     ` Mathias Nyman
2014-08-27 16:10       ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-08-28 10:41         ` Mathias Nyman
2014-08-28 10:50           ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado [this message]
2014-08-28 12:36             ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-08-28 15:20               ` Mathias Nyman
2014-08-28 15:09                 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-08-29 15:20                   ` Mathias Nyman
2014-09-01  9:02                     ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-09-01  9:36                       ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-09-01 10:37                         ` Mathias Nyman
2014-09-01 10:26                           ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-09-01 11:12                             ` Mathias Nyman
2014-09-01 11:19                               ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-09-01 12:25                                 ` Mathias Nyman
2014-09-01 12:14                                   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-09-01 14:16                           ` Alan Stern

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