Re: version 3.18.44 to 3.18.45 introduced a bug in "drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 13 2016 - 11:47:52 EST


On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:43:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 08:33 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 12/13/16 08:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I don't maintain 3.18-stable :)
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > >
> >
> > Thanks. My bad.
> >
> > adding Sasha.
>
> This was all covered here:
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg150608.html
>
> How did it get missed, and what should the process be?

I don't know how that got missed, did the "fixup" patch never make it
into 3.18-stable? I know Sasha has been slow on that kernel, and it's
about to go end-of-life, so perhaps he's just releasing them on a slower
cycle at the moment...

thanks,

greg k-h