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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>,
	paskripkin@gmail.com, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	baijiaju1990@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] r8188eu: Potential deadlocks in rtw_wx_set_wap/essid functions
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:53:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40085616-3b80-4e4d-b610-605dba69aede@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z73MMWEI7o59qzDL@equinox>

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 01:57:05PM +0000, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > This issue exists in longterm kernels containing the r8188eu driver:
> > 
> > 5.4.y (until 5.4.290)
> > 5.10.y (until 5.10.234)
> > 5.15.y (until 5.15.178)
> > 6.1.y (until 6.1.129)

This work is interesting, but we're not going to patch old kernels to
fix static checker bugs.  If the driver were still present in current
kernels or if it were a privilege escalation bug that would be a
different story.

regards,
dan carpenter

      reply	other threads:[~2025-02-25 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-25 13:02 [BUG] r8188eu: Potential deadlocks in rtw_wx_set_wap/essid functions Gui-Dong Han
2025-02-25 13:57 ` Phillip Potter
2025-02-25 14:53   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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