On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:30:18PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:10:12PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > One of the Linaro stable kernel users has suggested 2c4e3dbf63b39d (usb: > > phy: return -ENODEV on failure of try_module_get) as a fix for the > > stable kernel. While it's error handling that's being fixed this does > > seem like a reasonable candidate, it's a very simple fix and the > > behaviour without the change is to return a NULL pointer rather than an > > error pointer which callers will interpret as success which isn't good. > > Does this seem reasonable? > What stable kernel are you referring to? This patch is in 3.17 already, > and 3.16 is now end-of-life after this next release in a few hours. It applies to v3.14 as well, I didn't check further back.
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