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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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Re: [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime  PM Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2015-09-12 19:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime  PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-09-12 22:10 +0200

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