linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] staging: gdm724x: fix type confusion in gdm_lte_event

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Message-ID: <1f0087d1.9735.197cf60a718.Coremail.linma@zju.edu.cn>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:21:47 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From: "Lin Ma" <linma@....edu.cn>
To: "Greg KH" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: wkang77@...il.com, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] staging: gdm724x: fix type confusion in
 gdm_lte_event_rcv()

> 
> Ah, that was not obvious at all.  Remember, some of us get thousands of
> emails a day to review, please make things that you are submitting for
> non-mainline kernels very very very obvious as to what is going on.
> 

Gotcha, this is also the first time I encountered a bug that has been fixed
because it was "removed" (but not treated as a security issue) in upstream.
I will explain clearly what's happening and underline the non-mainline
information next time.


> > Therefore, shall I proceed with the patches? Or maybe the stable tree
> > could also delete that vulnerable code?
> 
> For a staging driver, it's not an issue, don't worry about it, no distro
> should be using it anyway as no one has the hardware :)
> 

Cool, glad to know that.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks
Lin