Re: Patch "sfc: suppress duplicate nvmem partition types in efx_ef10_mtd_probe" has been added to the 4.20-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 04:03:02PM +0000, Edward Cree wrote:
> On 27/02/19 22:31, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> >     sfc: suppress duplicate nvmem partition types in efx_ef10_mtd_probe
> >
> > to the 4.20-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:
> >      sfc-suppress-duplicate-nvmem-partition-types-in-efx_.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.20 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.
> If you are taking this patch, you also need c65285428b6e
>     sfc: initialise found bitmap in efx_ef10_mtd_probe
> which fixes bugs in the above patch; I don't currently see it in the
>  stable-queue.
> 
> (Also, it's not clear whether the original fix is really needed on stable
>  kernels; while the bug is present there, it is harmless until a v5.0-rc1
>  commit, probably c4dfa25ab307 ("mtd: add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API")
>  interacts with it.)
> 
> The above remarks apply to all six stable trees for which this patch has
>  been queued.

Thanks for the info, I've just dropped this patch from all of the stable
queues instead.

greg k-h