Re: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 13/86] drm/vmwgfx: Fix up user_dmabuf refcounting

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 15:22:31 EST


On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 12:16 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 07:59 +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> > Kamal,
> >
> > On 10/27/2015 10:29 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > 3.19.8-ckt9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit 54c12bc374408faddbff75dbf1a6167c19af39c4 upstream.
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately there was a regression introduced with this patch. The fix
> > for the regression is tiny and introduced upstream with patch
> > ed7d78b2da32198ca4c70172e3b63c6b3e2c570b, "drm/vmwgfx: Fix kernel NULL
> > pointer dereference on older hardware", also CC'd stable.
> > Please, if possible, make sure both these patches are pushed at the same
> > time.
> >
>
> Okay, I'll pick up that fix also -- both patches will appear in the next
> 3.19-stable release. (And the same for 3.13-stable).

For the record, actually no, *not* for 3.13-stable (which doesn't carry
the first fix).

-Kamal


> Thanks for the heads-up, Thomas.
>
> -Kamal
>


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