On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 07:12 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:19:45AM +1100, Russell Currey wrote:
> > eeh_pe_bus_get() can return NULL if a PCI bus isn't found for a given PE.
> > Some callers don't check this, and can cause a null pointer dereference
> > under certain circumstances.
> >
> > Fix this by checking NULL everywhere eeh_pe_bus_get() is called.
> >
> > Fixes: 8a6b1bc70dbb ("powerpc/eeh: EEH core to handle special event")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.11+
> > Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > this specific patch for 4.4 only
>
> Why? I can't take a "specific patch only" unless you have a whole lot
> of good description about why, and how, and what, and everything else...
>
> Why can't I just take a patch that is already in Linus's tree? Whenever
> we don't do that, it always (yes really), ends up being wrong.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Sorry, that was worded poorly. This patch is commit
04fec21c06e35b169a83e75a84a015ab4606bf5e upstream.
What I _meant_ is that this patch specifically applies to 4.4.
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