[v3.11][Regression] HID: hyperv: convert alloc+memcpy to memdup

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Joseph Salisbury wrote:

> After further testing reverting the following commit does in fact
> resolve the bug:
> 
> commit b1a1442a23776756b254b69786848a94d92445ba
> Author: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
> Date: Mon Jun 3 11:27:48 2013 +0200
> 
>     HID: core: fix reporting of raw events
> 
> Reverting this commit in v3.12-rc2 prevents the system from locking up, 
> which happens when connecting a bluetooth trackpad.
> 
> Jiri, do you think we should revert this patch, or is there some further 
> debugging/data collecting you would like to do?

Hi Joseph,

in this mail:

	Message-ID: <5241992E.3090805 at canonical.com>
	Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:52:46 -0400

you said that reverting this commit doesn't prevent the lockups, so I am 
rather confused ... ?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs