Re: [PATCH][v3.18.y][v3.19.y] tg3: Hold tp->lock before calling tg3_halt() from tg3_init_one()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 03/05/2015 04:42 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello,
>     
> Please consider including mainline commit
> d0af71a3573f1217b140c60b66f1a9b335fb058b in the next v3.18.y and v3.19.y
> stable releases.  It was included in the mainline tree as of v4.0-rc1. 
> It has been tested and confirmed to resolve:
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1428111 .
>
> This commit fixes a regression introduced going from 3.16 to 3.19, so it
> may not be needed in earlier than 3.18 stable releases.
>
> commit d0af71a3573f1217b140c60b66f1a9b335fb058b
> Author: Jun'ichi Nomura \(NEC\) <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Feb 12 01:26:24 2015 +0000
>
>     tg3: Hold tp->lock before calling tg3_halt() from tg3_init_one()
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Joseph Salisbury
>
>

After some further testing, it looks like only 3.19 is affected by the
bug.  The upstream 3.18.y stable kernel does not require the commit.

Thanks,

Joe


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]