From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: listdansp <listdansp@mail.ru>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Bin Liu <b-liu@ti.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lvc-project@linuxtesting.org, Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 1/1] usb: musb: core: drop redundant checks
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 05:26:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBFJEoDcdUI2PyVK@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10af6434-a466-7884-5650-fd8de01d540b@mail.ru>
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 07:16:44AM +0300, listdansp wrote:
> This patch was prepare in according to secure programming conception.
I do not understand what that means.
> In practice it indeed simply remove unused code.
Yes, it did, but why should that be added to a stable kernel tree?
> If you're thinking, that this patch is useless, we don't insist on applying
> it.
I'm confused as to why you thought it should have been applied at all.
Why did your testing deem it needed?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-15 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-14 17:01 [PATCH 5.10 0/1] usb: musb: core: drop redundant checks Danila Chernetsov
2023-03-14 17:01 ` [PATCH 5.10 1/1] " Danila Chernetsov
2023-03-14 17:06 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-03-14 17:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <10af6434-a466-7884-5650-fd8de01d540b@mail.ru>
2023-03-15 4:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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