Re: Patch "workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:44:01PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference
> 
> to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      workqueue-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.

No, this doesn't seem to work for 3.18.  The patch that created in_task
(7c4788950ba5922fde976d80b72baf46f14dee8d) doesn't really work for 3.18,
so I'm not going to queue this up there.

If you think it should be applied, can you provide a working backport?

thanks,

greg k-h



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