From: Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix null pointer dereference caused by sysfs_notify on binary attribute
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:36:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B0AC8D.3070708@itdev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130606152612.GA7495@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:45:20AM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote:
>> It would be nice to have this work as expected but for now this is a minimal
>> fix to prevent the kernel panic.
>
> Is anyone calling sysfs_notify on a binary attribute today? Or can this
> go into 3.11?
Nope. I think I'm the first person to try it. So 3.11 is fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-06 9:45 [PATCH] Fix null pointer dereference caused by sysfs_notify on binary attribute Nick Dyer
2013-06-06 15:26 ` Greg KH
2013-06-06 15:36 ` Nick Dyer [this message]
2013-06-06 19:37 ` [PATCH] sysfs: " Greg KH
2013-06-07 14:45 ` [PATCH V2] sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes Nick Dyer
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