From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:51:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180213195132.GA22142@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518550759-10600-1-git-send-email-mario.limonciello@dell.com>
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> There is no longer a need for the buffer to be defined in
> first 4GB physical address space.
>
> Furthermore there may be race conditions with multiple different functions
> working on a module wide buffer causing incorrect results.
>
> This commit has been backported from:
> commit 9862b43624 upstream
>
> Fixes: 549b4930f057658dc50d8010e66219233119a4d8
> Suggested-by: Pali Rohar <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
Why is this a stable patch? What bug does it fix?
confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-13 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-13 19:39 [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally Mario Limonciello
2018-02-13 19:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-02-13 19:54 ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-02-15 14:27 ` Greg KH
2018-02-15 14:50 ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-02-27 15:01 ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-02-27 18:30 ` Greg KH
2018-02-27 18:34 ` Mario.Limonciello
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-30 16:59 Mario Limonciello
2018-01-30 17:17 ` Pali Rohár
2018-01-30 18:14 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-01-31 9:07 ` Pali Rohár
2018-01-31 16:46 ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-01-31 16:46 ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-01-31 16:53 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-01-31 17:06 ` Pali Rohár
2018-01-31 17:15 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-01-30 17:20 ` Pali Rohár
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