Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:00:39 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM |
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > It turns out that this patch causes problems with the sr driver. A > reversion and alternate solution have already been submitted to James > Bottomley (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=144185206825609&w=2). We > ought to hold off putting it into the -stable kernels.
I prefer to take patches like this into a stable release, so as to spur the maintainer on to also get the fix into Linus's tree, which I don't see happening yet. I don't like diverging from what Linus has for obvious reasons.
thanks,
greg k-h
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