From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] i2c: dev: Fix the race between the release of i2c_dev and cdev
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 07:50:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200521055011.GA2330588@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0fa517f4672e45bbb11aeb57cfb2740b60f1f998.camel@codethink.co.uk>
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:45:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Please pick this fix for all stable branches:
>
> commit 1413ef638abae4ab5621901cf4d8ef08a4a48ba6
> Author: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Oct 11 23:00:14 2019 +0800
>
> i2c: dev: Fix the race between the release of i2c_dev and cdev
>
> I don't know whether it will apply cleanly to all of them; I can deal
> with those where it doesn't.
I applied it to 4.14, 4.19, 5.4, and 5.6. It does apply to 4.9 but as
the patch it depends on is not there, I don't think it will help.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-21 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 19:45 [stable] i2c: dev: Fix the race between the release of i2c_dev and cdev Ben Hutchings
2020-05-21 5:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-05-21 20:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2020-05-21 23:33 ` Sasha Levin
2020-05-22 11:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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