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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Ath5k: fix memory corruption
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:46:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804194630.GA26971@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217842628-22714-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Please consider these two patches for including in -stable.
> 3a0f2c871849f23c1070965bf94dec3f9c0b479d
> 10488f8ad62be3b860bad74e60b4fe6ab87aece3
> Both attached (1 per email).
> 
> The issue fixed by the first patch is triggerable on noisy channels,
> so it's a real problem.
> 
> The issue fixed by the second patch triggers often by loading and
> reloading the driver repeatedly, it's not hypothetical too.

Are either of these patches also relevant for the 2.6.25 tree?  It seems
like the second one will apply, but I don't know if the logic is correct
for me to force that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-04 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04  9:37 [PATCH 1/2] Ath5k: fix memory corruption Jiri Slaby
2008-08-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] Ath5k: kill tasklets on shutdown Jiri Slaby
2008-08-04 19:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-08-05  8:11   ` [PATCH 1/2] Ath5k: fix memory corruption Jiri Slaby

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