From: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
urs@isnogud.escape.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.6.26] [CAN] Fix can_send() handling on dev_queue_xmit() failures
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 20:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48234625.5020706@hartkopp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508172938.GA7461@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:00:39PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Maybe we should also consider to push the patch from Sam regarding the
>> wrong copy_from_user() results interpretation to the stable tree:
>>
>> can: Fix copy_from_user() results interpretation
>>
>> author Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
>>
>> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:57:25 +0000 (22:57 -0700)
>> committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>>
>> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:26:51 +0000 (14:26 -0700)
>> commit 3f91bd420a955803421f2db17b2e04aacfbb2bb8
>>
>
> I recall tat I considered stable material when I did
> this patch. But as I merely just did a codingstyle update
> of the old patch I dropped it.
>
> But looks like possible -stable materail so I've added
> stable@kernel.org to the to list so they can judge.
>
Yep. Thanks.
Indeed you updated the codingstyle from a patch suggested by Pavel - but
his (original) patch fixes the copy_from_user() result interpretation.
So it was not only a codingstyle patch which was commited here.
Best regards,
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 19:49 [PATCH] [2.6.26] [CAN] Fix can_send() handling on dev_queue_xmit() failures Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-08 9:50 ` David Miller
2008-05-08 17:00 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-08 17:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-08 18:27 ` Oliver Hartkopp [this message]
2008-05-13 17:46 ` [stable] " Greg KH
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