From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50384 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751117AbdKJNxz (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:53:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:54:06 +0100 From: Greg KH To: huawei.libin@huawei.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree Message-ID: <20171110135406.GA2471@kroah.com> References: <15103214411129@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15103214411129@kroah.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:44:01PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference > > to the 3.18-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: > workqueue-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch > and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let know about it. No, this doesn't seem to work for 3.18. The patch that created in_task (7c4788950ba5922fde976d80b72baf46f14dee8d) doesn't really work for 3.18, so I'm not going to queue this up there. If you think it should be applied, can you provide a working backport? thanks, greg k-h