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Message-ID: <20150912200039.GA5291@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:00:39 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	StanisÅ?aw Pitucha <viraptor@...il.com>,
	Ilan Cohen <ilanco@...il.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.1 70/78] SCSI: Fix NULL pointer dereference in runtime
 PM

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > 4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> It turns out that this patch causes problems with the sr driver.  A
> reversion and alternate solution have already been submitted to James
> Bottomley (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=144185206825609&w=2).  We
> ought to hold off putting it into the -stable kernels.

I prefer to take patches like this into a stable release, so as to spur
the maintainer on to also get the fix into Linus's tree, which I don't
see happening yet.  I don't like diverging from what Linus has for
obvious reasons.

thanks,

greg k-h
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