From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:41891 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbcBCK3S (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2016 05:29:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 10:29:14 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Jason Gerecke Cc: "# v3.17+" , Jiri Kosina , Ping Cheng , joshc@ni.com, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu Subject: Re: Request "HID: usbhid: fix recursive deadlock" added to stable Message-ID: <20160203102914.GA12337@charon.olymp> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 06:19:35PM -0800, Jason Gerecke wrote: > This is to request that commit > e470127e9606b1fa151c4184243e61296d1e0c0f be cherry-picked into the > stable trees for Linux 3.17 and newer. > > This commit fixes a deadlock which occurs when bringing a pen into > proximity of the most recent generation of "Intuos" tablets > (056a:033b, 056a:033c, 056a:033d, 056a:033d). The deadlock may be > triggered on the stock 4.4 kernel, or any kernel dating back to 3.17 > if the backported "input-wacom" drivers are used. The cherry-picked > commit has been tested successfully against what appear to be the > currently-active trees: 3.18, 4.1, and 4.4. > Thanks, I'm queuing it for the 3.16 kernel as well. Cheers, -- Luís > Jason > --- > Now instead of four in the eights place / > you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one / > (That is to say, eight) to the two, / > But you can’t take seven from three, / > So you look at the sixty-fours.... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html