Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines" failed to apply to 6.0-stable tree

Greg KH
2022-10-26T16:21:32Z

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:34:43AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:11:04PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 6.0-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >
> > Possible dependencies:
> >
> > 41fd1cb61514 ("media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines")
>
> Greg:
>
> I can submit a patch for the -stable trees that fixes the problem
> reported by syzbot without converting the mceusb driver to use the new
> usb_control_msg_*() routines. Would that be okay? Or do you prefer
> simply not to include this patch (which merely fixes a warning) in the
> stable kernels?

If it's just a warning, no need to really worry about it. But note that
the usb_control_msg_*() functions are in 5.10.y and newer kernels, so
maybe just do this using the real functions for 5.15 and 6.0?

thanks,

greg k-h