From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: johan@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] USB: serial: keyspan: handle unbound ports" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:47:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200119154733.GR1706@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157944127621242@kroah.com>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:41:16PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
>The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
>If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
>tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
>id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>
>------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
>From 3018dd3fa114b13261e9599ddb5656ef97a1fa17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:50:25 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] USB: serial: keyspan: handle unbound ports
>
>Check for NULL port data in the control URB completion handlers to avoid
>dereferencing a NULL pointer in the unlikely case where a port device
>isn't bound to a driver (e.g. after an allocation failure on port
>probe()).
>
>Fixes: 0ca1268e109a ("USB Serial Keyspan: add support for USA-49WG & USA-28XG")
>Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
>Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Grabbing the prerequisite for the other USB patch also resolved the
conflict here, now queued for 4.9 and 4.4.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-19 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-19 13:41 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] USB: serial: keyspan: handle unbound ports" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree gregkh
2020-01-19 15:47 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2020-01-19 15:51 ` Greg KH
2020-01-19 16:01 ` Johan Hovold
2020-01-19 18:53 ` Sasha Levin
2020-01-20 8:08 ` Johan Hovold
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