On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:20:11PM +0200, Viktor Jägersküpper wrote:
> Hi Greg, Sasha and all the others,
>
> Hans de Goede requested to revert "ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb"
> from all stable and longterm kernels because this commit broke certain devices
> with Atheros 9271 and at that time it seemed that reverting the commit would be
> done in the mainline kernel. The revert was done in kernel 5.7.9 etc., however
> Mark O'Donovan found a fix for the original commit - which avoided the revert in
> the mainline kernel - and this fix is now included in 5.8-rc7 with commit
>
> 92f53e2fda8bb9a559ad61d57bfb397ce67ed0ab ("ath9k: Fix regression with Atheros 9271").
>
> To be consistent with the mainline kernel, please apply the original commit
> again (or re-revert it, whatever is appropriate for stable kernels) and then
> apply Mark's fix. I have tested this with the current 5.7.10 kernel to confirm
> that it works because I was affected by the bug.
>
> All relevant people are CC'ed if someone wants to object.
I've now queued both up, thanks!
greg k-h
