Re: [PATCH 03/15] usb: xhci: Don't skip on Stopped - Length Invalid

Greg KH
2025-03-06T15:42:16Z

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:29:30PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> On 6.3.2025 16.52, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 04:49:42PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> > Why is a patch cc: stable burried here in a series for linux-next? It
> > will be many many weeks before it gets out to anyone else, is that
> > intentional?
> >
> > Same for the other commit in this series tagged that way.
>
> These are both kind of half theoretical issues that have been
> around for years without more complaints. No need to rush them to
> stable. Balance between regression risk vs adding them to stable.
>
> This patch for example states:
>
> "I had no luck producing this sequence of completion events so there
> is no compelling demonstration of any resulting disaster. It may be
> a very rare, obscure condition. The sole motivation for this patch
> is that if such unlikely event does occur, I'd rather risk reporting
> a cancelled partially done isoc frame as empty than gamble with UA"

Ok, fair enough, just seeing patches languish in -next that are tagged
for stable looks odd.

thanks,

greg k-h