From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:02:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180207200230.GA15309@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cee7474d677f4cbca751ddea9f86daee@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:10:46PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> commit 9862b43624 upstream
>
> There has been a race condition identified with initialization of the dell-laptop
> driver due to changes in 4.15. This commit has been shown to resolve the race
> condition.
>
> I'd like to see this brought back to 4.15 stable. It doesn't apply to anything earlier.
It doesn't apply cleanly to 4.15.y, it has 2 unresolved hunks. Can you
provide a backported version so that it can be applied?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-07 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-07 14:10 platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally Mario.Limonciello
2018-02-07 20:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-02-07 21:33 ` Mario.Limonciello
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