On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:13:29PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:47:31PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Montag, 25. Januar 2010 21:54:16 schrieb Johan Hovold: > > > I don't think this patch should go to stable as it does not fix anything > > > severe. Worst case is that in the unlikely event that usb_control_msg > > > fails and you have debugging enabled one may end up with 64 non-sense > > > characters in you log. There's no risk for any memory corruption > > > AFAICT. > > > > It does fix DMA on the stack. Are you sure this is always harmless > > on non-x86? > > Good point. But if that is considered critical enough then Dan's > original patch should go to stable instead of this one. And so should > the other 10+ DMA-to-stack patches in Greg's tree? Given the age of this bug (1999) and the fact that the devices are no longer made, I don't think this is -stable worthy. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
