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SubjectRe: ixgbe: fix possible data corruption in read_i2c_byte
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=d0310dc415a670ae2b2e27076b4685d988830479
> Commit: d0310dc415a670ae2b2e27076b4685d988830479
> Parent: 4c696ca9fbabc5f94a3c6db7f009e73f0ef21831
> Author: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Fri Jan 18 02:16:41 2013 +0000
> Committer: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> CommitDate: Fri Feb 15 23:16:09 2013 -0800
>
> ixgbe: fix possible data corruption in read_i2c_byte
>
> This patch makes sure that the SW lock is released after all i2c
> operations complete in the retry code path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Jeff,

Should this patch be considered for stable? This patch applied cleanly
to 3.7 and 3.4. I haven't done any testing yet.

-- Shuah


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