Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 056/187] Revert "iwlwifi: assign directly to iwl_trans->cfg in QuZ detection"

[Sasha Levin]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:48:53PM -0800, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On 12/27/19 9:38 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit db5cce1afc8d2475d2c1c37c2a8267dd0e151526 ]
> >
> > This reverts commit 968dcfb4905245dc64d65312c0d17692fa087b99.
> >
> > Both that commit and commit 809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4
> > attempted to fix the same bug (dead assignments to the local variable
> > cfg), but they did so in incompatible ways. When they were both merged,
> > independently of each other, the combination actually caused the bug to
> > reappear, leading to a firmware crash on boot for some cards.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205719
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This commitâs child 0df36b90c47d93295b7e393da2d961b2f3b6cde4 (part of
> the same bug 205719) is now enqueued for v5.4, but this one doesnât seem
> to have made it yet, perhaps because I forgot to Cc: stable@ in the
> commit message.  Can someone make sure this goes to v5.4 as well?  Luca
> previously nominated it for v5.4 here:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11269985/#23032785

Great to hear from you again Anders!

Yes, AUTOSEL runs on a slower cycle than patches tagged for stable.
Anyway, I've queued this patch up for the next release.

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Thanks,
Sasha