This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"

to the 3.18-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: revert-led-core-fix-brightness-setting-when-setting-delay_off-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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.

From 3f3437fbb2d8f780e84f507282d03facb4ccf248 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:59:07 +0000 Subject: Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"

From: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk

This reverts commit 20f6d9c2af33da892a0e03ffd6249c7ab81edfb7, which was commit 2b83ff96f51d0b039c4561b9f95c824d7bddb85c upstream. The bug that it should fix was only introduced in Linux 4.7, and in 4.4 it causes a regression.

Reported-by: Jacek Anaszewski jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com Cc: Matthieu CASTET matthieu.castet@parrot.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Cc: Wang Han wanghan1995315@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/leds/led-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/leds/led-core.c +++ b/drivers/leds/led-core.c @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ void led_blink_set(struct led_classdev * unsigned long *delay_on, unsigned long *delay_off) { - led_stop_software_blink(led_cdev); + del_timer_sync(&led_cdev->blink_timer);

led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_BLINK_ONESHOT; led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_BLINK_ONESHOT_STOP;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk are

queue-3.18/netlink-avoid-a-double-skb-free-in-genlmsg_mcast.patch queue-3.18/revert-led-core-fix-brightness-setting-when-setting-delay_off-0.patch queue-3.18/xhci-fix-ring-leak-in-failure-path-of-xhci_alloc_virt_device.patch