From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [4.4] Security fixes
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 19:36:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200521233630.GJ33628@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd7a780e9fad63868960562ca2e59383d03081c3.camel@codethink.co.uk>
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:20:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>I've backported fixes for I²C and media controller devices, dealing
>with the lifetime of related cdev and struct device instances and some
>similar race conditions. Fixing the lifetime issue for watchdog
>devices looks impractical for 4.4, as it depends on a big refactoring
>in 4.5.
>
>All but one of these are already included in or queued for the later
>stable branches. You dropped the I²C lifetime fix for 4.9, but I hope
>my previous replies persuaded you that it is valid.
Ignore what I said in my previous mail, I've backed out my changes and
took yours, thanks!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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2020-05-21 22:20 [4.4] Security fixes Ben Hutchings
2020-05-21 23:36 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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2019-05-30 14:22 Ben Hutchings
2019-06-04 14:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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