Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines" failed to apply to 6.0-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:34:43AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:11:04PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 6.0-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > Possible dependencies:
> > 
> > 41fd1cb61514 ("media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines")
> 
> Greg:
> 
> I can submit a patch for the -stable trees that fixes the problem 
> reported by syzbot without converting the mceusb driver to use the new 
> usb_control_msg_*() routines.  Would that be okay?  Or do you prefer 
> simply not to include this patch (which merely fixes a warning) in the 
> stable kernels?

If it's just a warning, no need to really worry about it.  But note that
the usb_control_msg_*() functions are in 5.10.y and newer kernels, so
maybe just do this using the real functions for 5.15 and 6.0?

thanks,

greg k-h