On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:22:02AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:27:53PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:40:16PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > 
> > >     Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: fix NULL-pointer dereference on tty_close
> > > 
> > > to the 3.3-stable tree which can be found at:
> > >     
> > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > This patch (which was also added to the 3.2 and 3.0 stable queues) has a
> > dependency on commit 797fe796c4335b35d ("Bluetooth: uart-ldisc: Fix
> > memory leak"). Unfortunately, the memory leak fix depends on another
> > patch which changes internal interfaces. The fix also went in through
> > bluetooth-next along with my fix so I couldn't refer to that commit.
> > Neither was the memory leak fix marked for stable.
> > 
> > The original discussion on how to best handle this can be found in these
> > threads:
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=133130788128668&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=133113631130418&w=2
> > 
> > Below is a minimal backport of the memory leak fix which the NULL-deref
> > patch depends on. This one is needed in 3.0 and 3.2 as well.
> 
> So if I just add this one patch to 3.0 and 3.2, that should be fine,
> right?  If so, great, I've now done that, if not, please give me a hint
> as to what I should do :)

Oh, this needs to be added to 3.3-stable as well, right?  I've done that
now also.

thanks,

greg k-h
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