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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:36:45 +0100
From: Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk>
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To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix null pointer dereference caused by sysfs_notify on
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:45:20AM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote:
>> It would be nice to have this work as expected but for now this is a minimal
>> fix to prevent the kernel panic.
> 
> Is anyone calling sysfs_notify on a binary attribute today?  Or can this
> go into 3.11?

Nope. I think I'm the first person to try it. So 3.11 is fine.
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