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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:56:00 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: s.priebe@...fihost.ag, eric.dumazet@...il.com, jwboyer@...il.com, hch@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, david@...morbit.com, stable@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:48:28PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@...fihost.ag> > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:53:34 +0100 > > > So we're talking AT LEAST about these ones: > >>Linus tree : > >> > >>commit 580da35a31f91a594f3090b7a2c39b85cb051a12 > >>IB: Fix RCU lockdep splats > > Doesn't even come close to applying to v3.0.18 > > That patch would only apply properly if the IB code is using the > dst_get_neighbour() interface, which doesn't even exist in v3.0.18 > > >>David tree : > >> > >>commit 218fa90f072e4aeff9003d57e390857f4f35513e > >>ipv4: fix lockdep splat in rt_cache_seq_show > > Patch also does not apply, and for the same reason as the IB patch. > > dst_get_neighbour() doesn't exist in v3.0.18, and therefore this code > being patched doesn't make use of it. > > >>commit f7e57044eeb1841847c24aa06766c8290c202583 > >>sch_teql: fix lockdep splat > > I'm not even going to try applying this one, it's going to have the > same issue as the previous two. > > The patch mentioned by commit 218fa90f072e4aeff9003d57e390857f4f35513e > ("ipv4: fix lockdep splat in rt_cache_seq_show") is not in the v3.0.x > tree, and it's a prerequisite for the rt_cache_seq_show() change > being even necessary. > > In all, I think this request is invalid. > > You're asking me to submit patches to -stable which don't apply > even remotely, and whose dependencies haven't even been applied > to the tree. Which makes me believe this really isn't a problem at all for 3.0.y... David, thanks for going through this. Stefan, you owe David a bunch of beer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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