Hi Takashi, On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:12:05AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > This bug appears to have been introduced in Linux 3.8 and doesn't need > > > fixing in 2.6.32. > > > > Ah indeed that's true. Does it harm to have it or not ? > > It's harmless. > > > because I'm > > still seeing a number of places where we have this in the driver : > > > > struct snd_ice1712 *ice = ac97->private_data; > > These are different object types. The reference of card->private_data > was introduced recently as Ben pointed out. Ah sorry I was confused. > > I'd like to be sure that no other function risks to dereference the > > same pointer. Also, I'm noting that 3.0/3.4 have this fix, while 3.2 > > does not. So I'm hesitant what to do with this patch. > > Just overlooked in 3.0/3.4 reviews :-< > > But it's utterly harmless, we don't have to remove it from 3.0/3.4, I > think. > > For 2.6.32, better to get rid of it from the queue, if it's not too > late. Perfect, thanks for the detailed explanation, I'm removing it now. Best regards, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html