linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 16/30] [media] pvrusb2: reduce stack usage pvr2_eeprom

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2017 16:39:25 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "# 3.4.x" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 16/30] [media] pvrusb2: reduce stack usage pvr2_eeprom_analyze()

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Ben Hutchings
<ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 09:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>>
>> I think we probably want both of them backported to 4.4, but I don't see a
>> dependency between them.
>
> Sorry, I mixed up two commits.  The one actually needed to avoid a null
> dereference is:
>
> commit 7cda4c5bae46ffca3abeadc4c1882d9325ee3102
> Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
> Date:   Thu Oct 13 10:51:20 2016 -0300
>
>     [media] tveeprom: use dev_foo() for printk messages
>
> Then "[media] tveeprom: print log messages using pr_foo()" is cleanup on
> top of that.

Ah, I see now. We do indeed need both of Mauro's patches before we
can apply mine then.

        Arnd