>>>>> "Kashyap" == Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Kashyap, Kashyap> Agree on this point. I am planning to study all possible such Kashyap> sanity in driver for VD and not trying to fix one specific Kashyap> scenario as described here. Do you think fix in this area is Kashyap> good for kernel-stable as well OR just keep in linux-next as it Kashyap> is not so severe considering real time exposure ? Trying to Kashyap> understand priority and severity of this issue. Since you're presumably only handling reads and writes in the fast path, I assume the sanity checking will be fairly simple and thus a candidate for stable. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering