On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:45:29PM -0800, Julius Werner wrote: > >> I'd like to know if this is going to be considered for merge or if > >> I'll have to look elsewhere for a solution. > > > > It's queued up for 3.14-rc1 (you can always check linux-next for this > > type of thing...) Do you also need/want this in older (i.e. stable) > > kernel releases? > > Oh right... sorry, I should've had a closer look first. (I guess > Google doesn't index git.kernel.org that well or I would've found it.) > I personally don't care about the stable backport, but it does work > around a rare use-after-free bug of the udev->config pointer (when the > usb_set_configuration(-1) in usb_deauthorize_device() fails because > the device is already unplugged, but it still runs > usb_destroy_configuration() afterwards), so you might want to consider > it. Ok, as you need it, it makes sense to add it to the stable kernels, I'll do it after 3.14-rc1. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
