Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Explicitly size elements of protocolstructures

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Aug 16 2012 - 15:35:43 EST


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:23:20AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Use explicitly sized types in data structures defining the host/guest
> protocol. I would like to thank Juan Sanchez-Agrelo <jagrelo@xxxxxxxxx>
> for reporting this.
>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If someone reports a problem, mark it as:
Reported-by: Juan Sanchez-Agrelo <jagrelo@xxxxxxxxx>
in the signed-off-by: area of the patch.

Does this need to go into 3.6, and possibly older kernels? Or can it
wait for 3.7?

thanks,

greg k-h
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