Re: [stable] [PATCH stable] b43legacy: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Sunday 22 June 2008 18:59:59 Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:46:12AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the
> > DMA allocation error checking code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > This patch is not merged to an upstream tree, yet, but is sent to John.
> 
> In the future, if you want patches to get automatically added to stable
> when they go into Linus's tree, just add:
> 	Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
> 
> to the "Signed-off-by:" area and we will get notified of it at merge
> time, so you don't have to resend it after it gets applied.

Ok, however often enough it is not trivial to port patches from head to stable.
A bug introduced by a stable port isn't something we really want to risk, I
think. So I'd like to test all stable patches in their final state before they
get submitted to stable.
So for this trivial patch I could probably have used the CC magic, however.

-- 
Greetings Michael.