From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sh_eth: check TSU registers ioremap() error
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:16:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514A0B15.7000900@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514A0835.6070104@cogentembedded.com>
On 03/20/2013 10:04 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>
>>
>>> One must check the result of ioremap() -- in this case it prevents
>>> potential
>>> kernel oops when initializing TSU registers further on...
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
>> Applied and queued up for -stable.
>
> Thanks. However, do you really think it's needed in stable? It's
> only error path, after all...
I forgot to add "unlikely" to the "error path". I usually don't mark
such patches for stable, when I'm not in a hurry. :-)
WBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-20 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-19 23:41 [PATCH 2/2] sh_eth: check TSU registers ioremap() error Sergei Shtylyov
2013-03-20 16:23 ` David Miller
2013-03-20 19:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-03-20 19:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2013-03-20 18:20 ` Denis Kirjanov
2013-03-20 19:45 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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