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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:34:43 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: [STABLE 4.14+][PATCH 0/2] IRDA fixes
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 03:24:03PM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> Hello - Two issues were reported to Ubuntu in the IRDA subsystem. IRDA is no
> longer present in the upstream kernel as of 4.17 but the stable tree is
> affected.

Given that irda is broken in these trees, how can anyone even trigger
these bugs?  How is the code being loaded by a normal user?

thanks,

greg k-h