linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: fix bitmap operations related to line event watching

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Date:   Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:20:41 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: fix bitmap operations related to line event watching

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:53 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>
> When operating on the bits of watched_lines bitmap, we're using
> desc_to_gpio() which returns the GPIO number from the global numberspace.
> This leads to all sorts of memory corruptions and invalid behavior. We
> should switch to using gpio_chip_hwgpio() instead.
>
> Fixes: 51c1064e82e7 ("gpiolib: add new ioctl() for monitoring changes in line info")
> Reported-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>

This looks good but where should it be applied?
It fails to apply to my devel branch where this lives.

Yours,
Linus Walleij