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

Alan Stern
2022-10-26T15:34:48Z

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?

Alan Stern