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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 11:44:28 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Patch "firmware: fix NULL pointer dereference in
 __fw_load_abort()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 11:26:54AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     firmware: fix NULL pointer dereference in __fw_load_abort()
> 
> to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      firmware-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-__fw_load_abort.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.

Ugh, no, this breaks the build horribly.  And in looking at the patch
itself, your marking this for stable doesn't make sense.  Why did you do
that?  This seems to be only an issue for 4.10-rc at the moment.

Now dropped from the stable trees, for this, and for 4.4.

thanks,

greg k-h