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Date:   Sun, 5 Jan 2020 10:42:18 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....edu>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 056/187] Revert "iwlwifi: assign directly to
 iwl_trans->cfg in QuZ detection"

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:48:53PM -0800, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
>On 12/27/19 9:38 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....edu>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit db5cce1afc8d2475d2c1c37c2a8267dd0e151526 ]
>>
>> This reverts commit 968dcfb4905245dc64d65312c0d17692fa087b99.
>>
>> Both that commit and commit 809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4
>> attempted to fix the same bug (dead assignments to the local variable
>> cfg), but they did so in incompatible ways. When they were both merged,
>> independently of each other, the combination actually caused the bug to
>> reappear, leading to a firmware crash on boot for some cards.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205719
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....edu>
>> Acked-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>This commit’s child 0df36b90c47d93295b7e393da2d961b2f3b6cde4 (part of
>the same bug 205719) is now enqueued for v5.4, but this one doesn’t seem
>to have made it yet, perhaps because I forgot to Cc: stable@ in the
>commit message.  Can someone make sure this goes to v5.4 as well?  Luca
>previously nominated it for v5.4 here:
>
>https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11269985/#23032785

Great to hear from you again Anders!

Yes, AUTOSEL runs on a slower cycle than patches tagged for stable.
Anyway, I've queued this patch up for the next release.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

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