linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 15/50] tty: goldfish: Fix a parameter of a call to free

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:46:06 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 15/50] tty: goldfish: Fix a parameter of a call to
 free_irq

On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 10:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me
> know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> 
> [ Upstream commit 1a5c2d1de7d35f5eb9793266237903348989502b ]
> 
> 'request_irq()' and 'free_irq()' should be called with the same
> dev_id.
[...]

This fixes a bug introduced in 4.6 by commit 465893e18878 "tty:
goldfish: support platform_device with id -1".  For earlier kernel
versions, it *introduces* a bug.

Please revert from the 3.18 and 4.4 branches.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.