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On 07/11/2015 08:05 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Sasha, I cc'ed you on a few of the emails surrounding this patch. It
> needs to be reverted from mainline and stable kernels (or just not
> applied in the first place if the stable kernel hasn't been released
> yet).
> 
> I've got a patchset that should fix this in a safer way queued up in my
> linux-next branch. Once that's merged we can see about whether (and
> how) to fix this in stable.

How critical is it? Do we need to spin a new stable release?


Thanks,
Sasha