Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Explicitly size elements of protocol structures | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:52:00 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org] > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:36 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; > virtualization@lists.osdl.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com; > jagrelo@cisco.com > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Explicitly size elements of protocol > structures > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:23:20AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > Use explicitly sized types in data structures defining the host/guest > > protocol. I would like to thank Juan Sanchez-Agrelo <jagrelo@cisco.com> > > for reporting this. > > > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> > > Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> > > If someone reports a problem, mark it as: > Reported-by: Juan Sanchez-Agrelo <jagrelo@cisco.com> > in the signed-off-by: area of the patch.
Will do. > > Does this need to go into 3.6, and possibly older kernels? Or can it > wait for 3.7?
Given the "stable kernel rules", I don't think this needs to go into older kernels. This can wait for 3.7.
Thanks,
K. Y
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