On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:53:37AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 03:37:28PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:45:52PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:15:18PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Am Montag, den 13.03.2017, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Johan Hovold: > > > > > This series fixes a number of NULL-pointer dereferences due to > > > > > missing endpoint sanity checks that can be triggered by a > > > > > malicious USB device. > > > Applied the lot. > > I noticed you dropped the Fixes tag from the patches that fix bugs which > predate git. While this is probably not much of an issue in this case, I > think it's generally a bad idea since we're loosing information this > way, and this specifically makes it harder for the stable maintainers to > figure out which tree to backport a fix to. As far as I know the rule is: if no special markings then stable patch should be applied as far as it can go. There is no reason to say specify 2.6.12 commit, as in fact the offending change is likely to be even earlier, so the annotation would be effectively wrong. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
