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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: mchehab@s-opensource.com, ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbtv: Fix refcounting mixup
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 14:54:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180515125423.GA7303@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180515115137.27724-1-oneukum@suse.com>

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:51:37PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> The premature free in the error path is blocked by V4L
> refcounting, not USB refcounting. Thanks to
> Ben Hutchings for review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
> Fixes: 50e704453553 ("media: usbtv: prevent double free in error case")

Please add:
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>

to this patch as well so I pick up the fix in the stable trees.

And a "Reported-by:" line would be nice as well to give credit to Ben :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-15 11:51 [PATCH] usbtv: Fix refcounting mixup Oliver Neukum
2018-05-15 12:54 ` Greg KH [this message]

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