From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ralph Siemsen <ralph.siemsen@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+899a33dc0fa0dbaf06a6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 02/31] Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: Postpone HCI_UART_PROTO_READY bit set in hci_uart_set_proto()
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:47:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119044703.GA1451491@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118202712.GA14832@maple.netwinder.org>
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 03:27:12PM -0500, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 03:56:14PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW, this also seems to be missing from 4.4 branch, although it was merged
> > > for 3.16 (per https://lore.kernel.org/stable/?q=Postpone+HCI).
> >
> > Odd that it was merged into 3.16, perhaps it was done there because some
> > earlier patch added the problem?
>
> This patch should really be viewed as a correction to an earlier commit:
> 84cb3df02aea ("Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: Fix null pointer derefence in case of
> early data"). This was merged 2016-Apr-08 into v4.7, and therefore is
> included in 4.9 and higher.
>
> Only very recently, on 2019-Sep-23, this was backported to 3.16, along with
> the correction. Both appeared in v3.16.74.
Ok, that makes more sense now. The "fix" didn't apply as it was not a
fix for an old issue, but rather a new one.
> > I say this as I do not think this is
> > relevant for the 4.4.y kernel, do you? Have you tried to apply this
> > patch there?
>
> The patch does not apply, but this is mainly due to the earlier commit
> missing. It seems to me like that earlier fix is desirable (and it was put
> into 3.16), along with the followup. So I would think we want it in 4.4 as
> well.
I've queued them both up now, thanks.
> [Aside: I'm really only interested in 4.9 and 4.19, so the 4.4 stuff is just
> a diversion. But figured I might as well mention what I found...]
Other people at your company care about 4.4.y :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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2019-11-15 6:20 [PATCH 4.9 00/31] 4.9.202-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-15 6:20 ` [PATCH 4.9 01/31] kvm: mmu: Dont read PDPTEs when paging is not enabled Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-15 6:20 ` [PATCH 4.9 02/31] Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: Postpone HCI_UART_PROTO_READY bit set in hci_uart_set_proto() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-15 16:10 ` Ralph Siemsen
2019-11-16 7:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-18 20:27 ` Ralph Siemsen
2019-11-19 4:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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