From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
"StanisÅ?aw Pitucha" <viraptor@gmail.com>,
"Ilan Cohen" <ilanco@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Thumshirn" <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
"James Bottomley" <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:00:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150912200039.GA5291@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1509121333210.13622-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > 4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> It turns out that this patch causes problems with the sr driver. A
> reversion and alternate solution have already been submitted to James
> Bottomley (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=144185206825609&w=2). We
> ought to hold off putting it into the -stable kernels.
I prefer to take patches like this into a stable release, so as to spur
the maintainer on to also get the fix into Linus's tree, which I don't
see happening yet. I don't like diverging from what Linus has for
obvious reasons.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2015-09-12 17:37 ` [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM Alan Stern
2015-09-12 20:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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