Re: hvc_console: Don't access hvc_task if not initialised

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 27 2011 - 20:48:45 EST


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:01:47PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) 27 Apr 2011 [14:31:29], Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:36:10 +0530, Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On (Wed) 20 Apr 2011 [07:34:35], Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Care to either create this patch, or resend your original one, if you
> > > > want it applied?
> > >
> > > Rusty has the other one queued. I pinged him about status.
> >
> > It's merged, but I don't think it had the requisite cc:stable, did it?
>
> No, because at the point of submitting I didn't know it would solve
> this bug as well. Greg, can you pick
> afa2689e19073cd2e762d0f2c1358fab1ab9f18c for stable?

Yes, but in the future, this is NOT the way to get patches into the
stable tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how
to do it properly.

thanks,

greg k-h
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