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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: sanity check for maxpacket
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:19:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXgcZuPl+R/w28ye@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e76d1d0-fb73-13b4-0881-6bdd8b69588f@linaro.org>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 08:08:37AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 10/26/21 08:03, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 07:52:00AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > > On 10/25/21 22:43, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > It should be applied to stable kernels: 5.14, 5.10, 5.4, 4.19, 4.14, 4.9, 4.4
> > > > It's already in the latest stable -rc releases, do you not see it there?
> > > 
> > > I haven't checked the rc releases, just the latest stable versions.
> > > Now I also see Sasha Levin's submissions on the stable mailing list archive.
> > > All good. Sorry for the noise.
> > 
> > Also note that there is a bug in this commit, so it was dropped from the
> > stable queues until the fix for this hits Linus's tree.
> > 
> 
> Good to know. Ideally we could also add some netif_warn() message for the user.

Why?  It's an "obviously broken" device that is created just to try to
harm the kernel.  No need to be noisy about it.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26  2:20 [PATCH] usbnet: sanity check for maxpacket Tadeusz Struk
2021-10-26  5:43 ` Greg KH
2021-10-26 14:52   ` Tadeusz Struk
2021-10-26 15:03     ` Greg KH
2021-10-26 15:08       ` Tadeusz Struk
2021-10-26 15:19         ` Greg KH [this message]

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