Bug#787191: Bug#776192: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 26.08.2015 um 00:52 schrieb Faidon Liambotis:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 06:21:20PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>> Any news about this? Can I help in any way?
> 
> Are there any objections/holdups here? It'd be great if this made it to
> 8.2, the deadline for which is this weekend AIUI. Let me know if I can
> help! :)

Can you poke upstream if it's safe to bump the timeout like this for v215.

The commit message for b5338a reads:
>    Some kernel modules still take more than one minute to insmod, we no longer rely on the timeout
>     killing insmod within a given period of time, so just bump this to a much higher value. Its only
>     purpose is to make sure that nothing stays aronud forever.

"we no longer rely on the timeout killing insmod within a given period
of time" → does this apply for v215 as well?

Michael
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