From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: huawei.libin@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:54:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171110135406.GA2471@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15103214411129@kroah.com>
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:44:01PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference
>
> to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> workqueue-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
No, this doesn't seem to work for 3.18. The patch that created in_task
(7c4788950ba5922fde976d80b72baf46f14dee8d) doesn't really work for 3.18,
so I'm not going to queue this up there.
If you think it should be applied, can you provide a working backport?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2017-11-10 13:44 Patch "workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree gregkh
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