[PATCH] firmware: dmi_scan: Fix UUID endianness for SMBIOS >= 2.6

[PATCH] firmware: dmi_scan: Fix UUID endianness for SMBIOS >= 2.6

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

This commit:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ff4319dc7cd58c92b389960e375038335d157a60

was supposed to be tagged with:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.10+]

But unfortunately I forgot to refresh the patch header before
committing. So please treat this commit as if this tag was present.
Sorry for the extra work.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

Re: [PATCH] firmware: dmi_scan: Fix UUID endianness for SMBIOS >= 2.6

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:20:49AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This commit:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ff4319dc7cd58c92b389960e375038335d157a60
> 
> was supposed to be tagged with:
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.10+]
> 
> But unfortunately I forgot to refresh the patch header before
> committing. So please treat this commit as if this tag was present.
> Sorry for the extra work.

It doesn't apply to 3.14-stable or 3.10-stable, so if you want it there,
can you please provide a backport?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH] firmware: dmi_scan: Fix UUID endianness for SMBIOS >= 2.6

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:11:25 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:20:49AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This commit:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ff4319dc7cd58c92b389960e375038335d157a60
> > 
> > was supposed to be tagged with:
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.10+]
> > 
> > But unfortunately I forgot to refresh the patch header before
> > committing. So please treat this commit as if this tag was present.
> > Sorry for the extra work.
> 
> It doesn't apply to 3.14-stable or 3.10-stable, so if you want it there,
> can you please provide a backport?

I double-checked the code and I don't think these branches are affected
by the bug, so no backporting is needed. I have no idea what made me
think otherwise back then, sorry for the noise.

The bug was introduced by commit 95be58df74 ("firmware: dmi_scan: Use
full dmi version for SMBIOS3") which made it into kernel v4.1. I'm
afraid the two commits I mentioned in the log message are just plain
wrong :( Only kernel branches v4.1 to v4.3 need this fix.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support