Re: Potential USB PHY error handling fix for stable

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:10:12PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of the Linaro stable kernel users has suggested 2c4e3dbf63b39d (usb:
> phy: return -ENODEV on failure of try_module_get) as a fix for the
> stable kernel.  While it's error handling that's being fixed this does
> seem like a reasonable candidate, it's a very simple fix and the
> behaviour without the change is to return a NULL pointer rather than an
> error pointer which callers will interpret as success which isn't good.
> 
> Does this seem reasonable?

What stable kernel are you referring to?  This patch is in 3.17 already,
and 3.16 is now end-of-life after this next release in a few hours.

thanks,

greg k-h
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