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From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap
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On Tuesday 30 January 2018 10:59:00 Mario Limonciello wrote:
> There may be race conditions with multiple different functions working
> on a module wide buffer causing one function to get the wrong results.
>=20
> Suggested-by: Pali Rohar <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>

And Fixes: 549b4930f057658dc50d8010e66219233119a4d8

I think fix for such race condition should be forwarded to stable
kernel(s). Apparently only 4.15 is affected.

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