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Date:   Thu, 21 May 2020 19:36:30 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
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        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [4.4] Security fixes
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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