Re: [stable] [patch 29/29] bug in gdth.c crashing machine

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:40:21 -0800 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:28:25AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:46 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > > From: Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net>
> > > 
> > > Undocumented...
> > 
> > This is a bit of a problem, isn't it?
> > 
> > I have no report of any problem this fixes, and no input from the gdth
> > maintainer about this.  The first I actually knew of this patch request
> > is that it appeared in an akpm patch stream yesterday.
> > 
> > I really think we need more details before this gets applied to
> > anything, let alone the stable tree.
> 
> Randy did forward it to the stable team a while ago too, but I didn't
> know even what tree it applied to as the patch level was a bit off.  I
> think he might have some more information about it?
> 

Achim did reply:  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/138

So we don't know what the patch does, but it should be merged into -stable
(and mainline, heaven forfend)