From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965758AbaH1KaT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:30:19 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:30895 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934654AbaH1KaR (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:30:17 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,417,1406617200"; d="scan'208";a="591060081" Message-ID: <53FF0765.3050509@intel.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:41:41 +0300 From: Mathias Nyman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux USB Mailing List , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] xhci-ring: Fix Null pointer dereference References: <1409068061-10855-1-git-send-email-ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com> <53FDEA48.9030301@intel.com> <53FDF8D9.60103@intel.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/27/2014 07:10 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > Perhaps we could apply both patches to current tree and backport mine > to older kernels? > The already applied patch fixes many other issues than just this one. backporting it to stable < 3.13 turned out to not be that difficult, stable maintainers said they can do it themselves. Stable kernels prefer patches that are already upstream, as Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt states: "- It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream)." There is no need for the other patch anymore, not upstream nor to stable -Mathias