Hello Greg, Thierry, On 11.10.2014 17:21, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 04:46:26PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: >> If PWM device is requested by means of legacy API pwm_request(), its >> resources are not freed on module unbind, which may cause an oops on >> access, e.g. by reading /sys/kernel/debug/pwm. >> >> Reported-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dmitry_eremin@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 4 ++++ >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > <formletter> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > for how to do this properly. > > </formletter> > -- could you please review the change? I believe it would be nice to have oops fix in v3.18. -- With best wishes, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
