linux-kernel - Re: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak when shutting down request queue.

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:23:04 -0600
From:   Raul Rangel <rrangel@...omium.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
        djkurtz@...gle.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com, zwisler@...omium.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Boot <bootc@...tc.net>,
        Clément Péron <peron.clem@...il.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [stable/4.14.y PATCH 0/3] mmc: Fix a potential resource leak
 when shutting down request queue.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 07:09:17PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Raul Rangel wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:19:34AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:55:18AM -0600, Raul E Rangel wrote:
> > > > I think we should cherry-pick 41e3efd07d5a02c80f503e29d755aa1bbb4245de
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/856512/ into 4.14. It fixes a
> > > > potential resource leak when shutting down the request queue.
> > > 
> > > Potential meaning "it does happen", or "it can happen if we do this", or
> > > just "maybe it might happen, we really do not know?"
> > It does happen if the AMD SDHCI patches are cherry-picked into 4.14.
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/1/398
> 
> Why are those patches somehow being required to be added to 4.14.y?  If
> they are not added, is all fine?
I was just thinking we would backport the patches to fix this AMD SDHCI
hardware bug, but I guess we don't need to.

Thanks