linux-kernel - Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

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Message-ID: <20210218172259.GJ1463@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:22:59 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@...tonmail.com>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19:54PM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> In-tree iwlwifi worked half-ok on early 4.9.y stable. If
> connection somehow de-autheticated (out of radio range or
> whatever) it crashed the kernel spectacularly. Eventually that was
> fixed and in-tree iwlwifi worked fine on 4.9.y and 4.14.y stable
> kernels. On second half of year 2020 (don't remember exactly when)
> iwlwifi started causing erratic behavior when some random process
> terminated, as if some exit processing left some resources
> un-freed or something weird like that.

So you bisected the stable kernel, and reported the problem so the
problem commit could be dealt with?

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