From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] gpio: sysfs: fix memory leaks and device hotplug
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 22:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150515202404.GG13976@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55564E41.4010805@suse.cz>
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:51:29PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 05/15/2015, 04:51 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 04:28:24PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> >>
> >> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
> >> objections, please let us know.
> >
> > This one depends on 01cca93a9491 ("gpio: unregister gpiochip device
> > before removing it") as indicated by the stable tag:
> >
> > Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.27: 01cca93a9491
>
> I am not sure what you mean. The commit contains:
> Fixes: d8f388d8dc8d ("gpio: sysfs interface")
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.27: 01cca93a9491
>
> d8f388d8dc8d is in 2.6.27
> 01cca93a9491 is in 3.19
>
> Since it is fixing something in 2.6.27, I should take it to 3.12, or am
> I missing something?
Yes, but the stable tag above means you need to backport 01cca93a9491
("gpio: unregister gpiochip device before removing it") as well.
Backports of both patches for 3.10 and 3.14 can be found in Greg's
stable queues (posted to stable list earlier today).
Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-15 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-15 14:28 [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] ocfs2: dlm: fix race between purge and get lock resource Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] nilfs2: fix sanity check of btree level in nilfs_btree_root_broken() Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] RDMA/CMA: Canonize IPv4 on IPV6 sockets properly Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] gpio: sysfs: fix memory leaks and device hotplug Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:51 ` Johan Hovold
2015-05-15 19:51 ` Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 20:24 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2015-05-16 6:42 ` Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] mnt: Fix fs_fully_visible to verify the root directory is visible Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] mm/memory-failure: call shake_page() when error hits thp tail page Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] mm: soft-offline: fix num_poisoned_pages counting on concurrent events Jiri Slaby
2015-05-15 14:28 ` [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] xen/console: Update console event channel on resume Jiri Slaby
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