From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable-4.4 1/2] brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 14:29:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170509122923.GA6953@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edb40a45-b37b-2fef-8094-1e4cbad24956@broadcom.com>
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:17:59PM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>
>
> On 9-5-2017 14:14, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> >> From: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>
> >>
> >> commit 455a1eb4654c24560eb9dfc634f29cba3d87601e upstream
> >>
> >> The incoming skb header may be resized if header space is
> >> insufficient, which might change the data adddress in the skb.
> >> Ensure that a cached pointer to that data is correctly set by
> >> moving assignment to after any possible changes.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>
> >> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> >> ---
> >> This patch should be applied to the linux-4.4.y and linux-4.1.y
> >> branches.
> >
> > Now applied to the 4.4 trees. I've also added it to 3.18, thanks for
> > the patches!
>
> Ok. I did not check 3.18 as it is marked EOL on kernel.org. I checked
> just now and the patch does not apply to 3.18 as is.
Well, I renamed the file in the diff and all was fine :)
And yes, it does say EOL on kernel.org, I'm just maintaining it on my
own for a bit, no need for you to take extra time on your end.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-09 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-09 10:21 [PATCH stable-4.4 1/2] brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes Arend van Spriel
2017-05-09 10:21 ` [PATCH stable-4.4 2/2] brcmfmac: Make skb header writable before use Arend van Spriel
2017-05-09 12:14 ` [PATCH stable-4.4 1/2] brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes Greg KH
2017-05-09 12:17 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-05-09 12:29 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-05-09 12:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-05-09 18:17 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-05-09 19:13 ` Greg KH
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