Re: Patch "usb: dwc3: qcom: fix peripheral and OTG suspend" has been added to the 5.19-stable tree

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Sep 05 2022 - 13:57:34 EST


On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 01:00:59PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 05:00:10PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:36:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 03:23:13PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > >On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 03:13:09PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > >> >On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:04:44AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > >> >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 02:58:31PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > >> >> >On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 08:53:09AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > >> >> >> Fixes: 6895ea55c385 ("usb: dwc3: qcom: Configure wakeup interrupts during suspend")
> > > >> >> >
> > > >> >> >This commit doesn't exist in 5.19 (and earlier trees), shouldn't your
> > > >> >> >scripts check for that?
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> They do - it was backported to 5.19.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >What?! Why on earth would 6895ea55c385 ("usb: dwc3: qcom: Configure
> > > >> >wakeup interrupts during suspend") be backported to stable?
> > > >> >
> > > >> >Please drop that patch instead. It's essentially a new feature and is in
> > > >> >any case in no way stable material.
> > > >>
> > > >> Right, it was picked up as a dependency of a872ab303d5d ("usb: dwc3: qcom: fix use-after-free on runtime-PM wakeup")
> > > >
> > > >That's wrong too, it's not a dependency for that fix.
> > >
> > > Right, it may not strictly be one, but we're trying to bring in
> > > dependencies as is without modifying the patch is it's far less error
> > > prone, and keeps future backports easy, as long as backporting those
> > > isn't riskier.
> >
> > It should only be some context that have changed. Backporting a known
> > broken and non-trivial feature patch for that can't be right. It is
> > certainly riskier.
> >
> > > In this case, if I were to drop a872ab303d5d I'd also need to drop:
> > >
> > > a872ab303d5d ("usb: dwc3: qcom: fix use-after-free on runtime-PM wakeup")
> > > 6498a96c8c9c ("usb: dwc3: qcom: fix runtime PM wakeup")
> > >
> > > >So does this mean you're dropping the patches that should not be
> > > >backported?
> > >
> > > Having said the above, at the end it's your patches and your call, let
> > > me know if you're okay with dropping a872ab303d5d, a872ab303d5d, and
> >
> > You mentioned a872ab303d5d twice here.
> >
> > > 6498a96c8c9c from all trees and I'll do that.
> >
> > This one didn't have a CC stable tag so not sure why you're backporting
> > that one either.
> >
> > Just pick
> >
> > a872ab303d5d ("usb: dwc3: qcom: fix use-after-free on runtime-PM wakeup")
> >
> > which was the only patch I had marked for stable and fix up the trivial
> > context change (an unrelated function has been added after the new
> > helper in mainline).
>
> Okay, this should be done. Please take a look at the queue to confirm.

At a quick glance, looks good to me. I'll go through the other USB cc:
stable patches tomorrow and make sure.

thanks,

greg k-h