On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 01:18:56PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
From: Karthick Gopalasubramanian kargop@codeaurora.org
[ Upstream commit 32dcfe8316cdbd885542967c0c85f5b9de78874b ]
Reset file is not used and may cause race conditions with operational driver if used.
Signed-off-by: Karthick Gopalasubramanian kargop@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Maya Erez merez@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c | 27 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-)
Why is this a patch for stable kernels? debugfs is only for root, and can do much worst things than this, which is why it shouldn't be mounted/enabled on "real" systems.
This wasn't backported due to security issues.
It was backported since:
"[The] Reset file ... may cause race conditions"
Final call is yours, as always. Please do as you see fit.