linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for stable] cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char*

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:56:37 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
	linux-media <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for stable] cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char*

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:59 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> This patch is already in Linus' tree and I really think it should go into stable
> as well. You will find this bug in every kernel from the moment cx25821 went
> out of staging.
> 
> I just read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, so I guess it was enough
> to add a tag "Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org" in the patch (right?).
> Now I know it :-)
> 
> If I'm doing anything wrong, just yell at me.
[...]

An upstream commit hash would have helped, but I found it anyway.
Queued up for 3.2.y.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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