Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Feb 25 2006 - 19:16:24 EST


On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:01:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:
>
> > Chris Wright wrote:
> > > * Stefan Richter (stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > > sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
> > >
> > > Looks like these still aren't upstream. Can you please resend to -stable
> > > once they've been picked up by Linus?
> >
> > Yes, I will do so.
>
> Perhaps equally importantly, let's get them into mainline if they are so
> important. Which means that I want sign-offs and acks from the appropriate
> people (scsi and original author, which is apparently Al).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW, there's a potential problem: original was not split in two, and AFAICS
it was picked by SCSI folks in that form. I've no objections against
such split, just wondering if git might...

ObGit: is there any way to fetch _all_ branches from remote, creating local
branches with the same names if they didn't exist yet? Ot, at least, get
the full list of branches existing in the remote repository...
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