linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 044/167] drm/amdgpu: validate user pitch alignment

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Date:   Tue, 3 Sep 2019 18:40:43 +0200
From:   Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 044/167] drm/amdgpu: validate user pitch
 alignment

On 2019-09-03 6:23 p.m., Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 89f23b6efef554766177bf51aa754bce14c3e7da ]

Hold your horses!

This commit and c4a32b266da7bb702e60381ca0c35eaddbc89a6c had to be
reverted, as they caused regressions. See commits
25ec429e86bb790e40387a550f0501d0ac55a47c &
92b0730eaf2d549fdfb10ecc8b71f34b9f472c12 .

This isn't bolstering confidence in how these patches are selected...
I'm also a little nervous about others which change values by an order
of magnitude. There were cases before where such patches were backported
to branches which didn't have other corresponding changes, so they ended
up breaking stuff instead of fixing anything.

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