On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: > Hello Greg, Thierry, > > On 11.10.2014 17:21, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 04:46:26PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: > >> If PWM device is requested by means of legacy API pwm_request(), its > >> resources are not freed on module unbind, which may cause an oops on > >> access, e.g. by reading /sys/kernel/debug/pwm. > >> > >> Reported-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <[email protected]> > >> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <[email protected]> > >> --- > >> drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 4 ++++ > >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > > > <formletter> > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > > for how to do this properly. > > > > </formletter> > > -- > > could you please review the change? I believe it would be nice to have > oops fix in v3.18.
drivers/video/ is not under my control, so there's nothing I can do here, sorry... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pwm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
