Re: Patch for stable 4.5+ (dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl)

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On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:23:20AM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Upstream commit 888022c0473d079bff9b47fb50434b1f20f8f37f
> Subject: dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl
> Applicable to: 4.5+ stable kernels
> 
> The cc:stable got missed while this patch got applied for mainline; it
> allows a 32-bit application to use DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC with 64-bit
> kernel.

Is this a new feature being added?  Why is this a stable kernel patch?

And always cc: the authors of the patch involved when asking for a
stable backport, it keeps me from having to add them to the cc: when
asking questions like this :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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