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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	djkurtz@google.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
	zwisler@chromium.org, "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Chris Boot" <bootc@bootc.net>,
	"Clément Péron" <peron.clem@gmail.com>,
	"Ulf Hansson" <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:36:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190619183643.GB7018@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190619182304.GA98587@google.com>

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:23:04PM -0600, Raul Rangel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 07:09:17PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Raul Rangel wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:19:34AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:55:18AM -0600, Raul E Rangel wrote:
> > > > > I think we should cherry-pick 41e3efd07d5a02c80f503e29d755aa1bbb4245de
> > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/856512/ into 4.14. It fixes a
> > > > > potential resource leak when shutting down the request queue.
> > > > 
> > > > Potential meaning "it does happen", or "it can happen if we do this", or
> > > > just "maybe it might happen, we really do not know?"
> > > It does happen if the AMD SDHCI patches are cherry-picked into 4.14.
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/1/398
> > 
> > Why are those patches somehow being required to be added to 4.14.y?  If
> > they are not added, is all fine?
> I was just thinking we would backport the patches to fix this AMD SDHCI
> hardware bug, but I guess we don't need to.

Has anyone asked for those to be backported?  Does anyone require them
to be?  What's keeping users from using a newer kernel that have this
specific hardware issue?

Trying to apply patches to a stable kernel due to an issue that is not
even in that stable kernel is crazy.  No wonder I am totally confused...

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-19 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-13 17:55 Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 17:55 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 1/3] mmc: block: Simplify cleaning up the queue Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 17:55 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 2/3] mmc: Fix null pointer dereference in mmc_init_request Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 20:12   ` Greg KH
2019-05-13 17:55 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 3/3] mmc: Kill the request if the queuedata has been removed Raul E Rangel
2019-05-13 20:12   ` Greg KH
2019-05-14  0:43 ` [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue Sasha Levin
2019-05-14  9:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-19 16:46   ` Raul Rangel
2019-06-19 17:09     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-19 18:23       ` Raul Rangel
2019-06-19 18:36         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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