linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix lx-device-list-bus and lx-device-list-class

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20231130143007.0ca748b966e35426c2cfaa53@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:30:07 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kuan-Ying.Lee@...iatek.com,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        Kieran Bingham <kbingham@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix lx-device-list-bus and
 lx-device-list-class

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:00:32 -0800 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com> wrote:

> >> Fixes: 83b9148df2c9 ("driver core: bus: bus iterator cleanups")
> >> Fixes: 7b884b7f24b4 ("driver core: class.c: convert to only use class_to_subsys")
> > 
> > I don't know how -stable maintainers handle more than one Fixes:.  One
> > of the above was released in 6.3, the other in 6.4.  What are they to
> > do?
> 
> Neither are stable kernels fortunately, so any kernel >= 6.4 where both 
> issues are present should be able to cleanly cherry-pick the change.

OK, I'll change it to just 6.4's 7b884b7f24b4 to simplify life.

> I suppose this should have called for me to issue two patches, one 
> fixing lx-device-list-bus and the other one fixing lx-device-list-class, 
> though it seems like this is such a niche usage that it may not matter 
> that much.

It is indeed nichey :)