On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 04:03:02PM +0000, Edward Cree wrote:
On 27/02/19 22:31, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sfc: suppress duplicate nvmem partition types in efx_ef10_mtd_probeto the 4.20-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: sfc-suppress-duplicate-nvmem-partition-types-in-efx_.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.20 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
If you are taking this patch, you also need c65285428b6e sfc: initialise found bitmap in efx_ef10_mtd_probe which fixes bugs in the above patch; I don't currently see it in the stable-queue.
(Also, it's not clear whether the original fix is really needed on stable kernels; while the bug is present there, it is harmless until a v5.0-rc1 commit, probably c4dfa25ab307 ("mtd: add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API") interacts with it.)
The above remarks apply to all six stable trees for which this patch has been queued.
Thanks for the info, I've just dropped this patch from all of the stable queues instead.
greg k-h