linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.6 38/81] gpio: bail out silently on NULL descriptors

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Message-ID: <1899e9b0-277b-35b2-0cf5-3f02f0d16d34@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:16:48 +0200
From:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Uwe Kleine-KÃ¶nig 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.6 38/81] gpio: bail out silently on NULL descriptors

Hi,

On 23-06-16 09:21, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> 4.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> This should ideally be paired with
> commit 79bb71bd1d93197ce227fa167b450b633f30a52b
> "gpio: make sure gpiod_to_irq() returns negative on NULL desc"
> which went upstream yesterday.

Ack.

> Lest Hans de Goede will be unhappy.

Well it is not so much me who will be unhappy as all
people running Linux on Allwinner SoCs who all of a sudden
will no longer have working usb unless we get either
both patches or neither patch in.

Regards,

Hans