Re: Patch "locking/lockdep: Avoid potential access of invalid memory in lock_class" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 29 2022 - 07:27:30 EST


On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 01:23:38PM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> locking/lockdep: Avoid potential access of invalid memory in lock_class
>
> to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> locking-lockdep-avoid-potential-access-of-invalid-memory-in-lock_class.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.

Oops, nope, this breaks the build in 5.4.y.

Cheng-Jui, if you want this in 5.4.y, please provide a working backport.

thanks,

greg k-h