linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 44/56] video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences

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Date:   Sun, 2 Jun 2019 10:11:35 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>, Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>,
        Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 44/56] video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL
 pointer dereferences

On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:19:29AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:25:48AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 1d84353d205a953e2381044953b7fa31c8c9702d ]
>>
>> In case ioremap fails, the fix releases resources and returns
>> -ENOMEM to avoid NULL pointer dereferences.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
>> Cc: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
>> Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>> [b.zolnierkie: minor patch summary fixup]
>> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
>Why only 4.4.y?  Shouldn't this be queued up for everything or none?

It's on all branches. Something weird happened with git-send-email and
mail.kernel.org, and apparently the rest of the branches didn't get all
their mails sent out. Sadly I don't have the logs for that :(

--
Thanks,
Sasha