Re: Patch "platform/x86: xiaomi-wmi: Fix race condition when reporting key events" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:59:49AM +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:
> Am 26.05.24 um 21:43 schrieb Sasha Levin:
> 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >      platform/x86: xiaomi-wmi: Fix race condition when reporting key events
> > 
> > to the 6.6-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:
> >       platform-x86-xiaomi-wmi-fix-race-condition-when-repo.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> the underlying race condition can only be triggered since
> commit e2ffcda16290 ("ACPI: OSL: Allow Notify () handlers to run on all CPUs"), which
> afaik was introduced with kernel 6.8.
> 
> Because of this, i do not think that we have to backport this commit to kernels before 6.8.

Thanks for looking into this and letting us know!

greg k-h