From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58870 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751914AbbILUAk (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:00:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:00:39 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Alan Stern Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Stanis=C5=3Faw?= Pitucha , Ilan Cohen , Johannes Thumshirn , James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM Message-ID: <20150912200039.GA5291@kroah.com> References: <20150911224616.612338944@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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