From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:37557 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752335AbYFVRXd (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:23:33 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH stable] b43legacy: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:23:24 +0200 Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de References: <200806201146.12984.mb@bu3sch.de> <20080622165959.GA18163@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080622165959.GA18163@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200806221923.24856.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080622_192337_302923_0606710D) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > > > --- > > > > 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 > > 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.