Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:53:32 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH] backlight: grab ops_lock before testing bd->ops |
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:05:32AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:59:07AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:43 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > According to the comment describing ops_lock in the definition of > > > struct backlight_device and when comparing with other functions in > > > backlight.c the mutex must be hold when checking ops to be non-NULL. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > > > > Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com> > The problem was introduced by c835ee7f4154992e6cf0674d7ee136f5d36247a4 > (that is in 2.6.29-rc1). Is this relevant for stable?
Yes.
What is the git commit id of the fix in Linus's tree?
thanks,
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