From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linhaoguo86@gmail.com, mchehab@kernel.org, sean@mess.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines" failed to apply to 6.0-stable tree
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:34:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1lvmRzsk8mJpS1p@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1ltqulR5mCLlJhH@rowland.harvard.edu>
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 01:26:02PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 06:21:24PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Now I'm getting puzzled. I just took a look at
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c?h=linux-5.10.y
>
> and the same with "5.15" or "6.0" in place of "5.10", and in all three
> of them this patch has already been applied! They are commits
> 587f793c64d9, 75913c562f5b, and 608e58a0f461 respectively.
>
> So it looks like there really is no problem except that for some reason
> your scripts are trying to apply patches to -stable trees which already
> contain them.
Ah, this one I had to apply before it hit linux-next due to issues with
Mauro's delay at the time.
Sorry about that, all is good.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-26 15:11 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines" failed to apply to 6.0-stable tree gregkh
2022-10-26 15:34 ` Alan Stern
2022-10-26 16:21 ` Greg KH
2022-10-26 17:26 ` Alan Stern
2022-10-26 17:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
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