Re: [PATCH v6 1/8] staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection

Re: [PATCH v6 1/8] staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection

[Salman Alghamdi]

On May 04, 2026 12:35 +03, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 10 ++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> You should not mix patches for the current release (i.e. this one), with
> patches for the next release (i.e. the rest of the patches in this
> series), as that means I can't take the full series for either :(
> 
> Please break this up into two different sets of patches and resend them
> that way.

Hi Greg,
Thank you for the review.

Two questions before I resend:
1. How do I tell which release a patch targets? Is it purely based on whether it's a bug fix (current release) vs. a new change (next release), or is there a more specific rule I should follow?
2. For versioning the split series, should the bug fix patch restart at v1, and the rest of the series continue at v7? Or should I keep them sequential (bug fix as v7, next-release patches as v8)?

Thanks,
Salman Alghamdi

Re: [PATCH v6 1/8] staging: rtl8723bs: fix buffer over-read in rtw_update_protection

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 12:56:09AM +0300, Salman Alghamdi wrote:
> On May 04, 2026 12:35 +03, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 10 ++++++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > You should not mix patches for the current release (i.e. this one), with
> > patches for the next release (i.e. the rest of the patches in this
> > series), as that means I can't take the full series for either :(
> > 
> > Please break this up into two different sets of patches and resend them
> > that way.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> Two questions before I resend:
> 1. How do I tell which release a patch targets? Is it purely based on whether it's a bug fix (current release) vs. a new change (next release), or is there a more specific rule I should follow?

That is exactly what it is based on.

> 2. For versioning the split series, should the bug fix patch restart at v1, and the rest of the series continue at v7? Or should I keep them sequential (bug fix as v7, next-release patches as v8)?

two separate series, so yes, split it that way should be fine.

thanks,

greg k-h