linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Initialize dma

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:50:59 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Liam Mark <lmark@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Initialize dma_address of new sg
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Liam Mark wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 10:16:56PM -0800, Liam Mark wrote:
> > > Fix the dup_sg_table function to initialize the dma_address of the new
> > > sg list entries instead of the source dma_address entries.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 17fd283f3870 ("staging: android: ion: Duplicate sg_table")
> > 
> > So this should be sent to the stable trees as well, right?
> > 
> > Please add that when you resend...
> 
> My understanding was that I should only send this to the stable branch if 
> it fixes a real bug.
> 
> Both myself and Laura can't see any actual problems that result from this 
> issue, the change is more to help future proof the code.
> 
> My commit message wasn't clear about this and could have mislead people 
> into thinking there was a bug.
> I will update the commit message to make it clear that this issue doesn't 
> currently result in any problem.
> 
> Do you still want me to send it to the stable trees?

If it's not a bugfix, no need to.  But please clean up your changelog
text as it implies that it is a bugfix...

thanks,

greg k-h