Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 17/40] ASoC: topology: Fix route memory corruption

[Amadeusz Sławiński <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/14/2024 12:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:00:53AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 04:42:04PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
>
> > > Should this be cherry-pick of both (they should apply cleanly):
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/sound/soc/soc-topology.c?id=e0e7bc2cbee93778c4ad7d9a792d425ffb5af6f7
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/sound/soc/soc-topology.c?id=0298f51652be47b79780833e0b63194e1231fa34
> > > or just the second one adjusted to apply for stable trees?
>
> > I think having commit with memory corruption fix is more important to
> > stable kernels than not having the code cleanup commit. So, I would
> > suggest stable policy to be changed a bit, and minor commits like this
> > code cleanup, be allowed in stable if they are dependence of bug fixing
> > commits.
>
> > Additionally, these neutral commits just make stable trees become closer
> > to mainline trees (which allows more bug fix commits to be applied
> > cleanly).
>
> The reason I nacked the cleanup commit was just that there was no
> indication that it was a dependency or anything, it just looked like
> standard stuff with not reviewing bot output.

I've send both patches for stable in 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sound/20240814140657.2369433-1-amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t