From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18188C46470 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 05:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15AD2087E for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 05:57:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1557986232; bh=Q7qR++elTHU3WNUzfNbH2FnOmoOxrV/+vBSVYyJs4AM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=yO0SXoJLkAVRhMfj2dP5zkhyVKtVvuHlAAtWHKOO9py3G6k04K8+wmc6ul/Zt/Hia QyKewIclfZfjzUivmoZIsjykYsc/9vcf/nzdchG6Vf6uyFr7DaML3LiMtLVl0YBDUd gqdpCT77TVLFkHhgqynlBtqFy7eBqmmbb2LO8oZw= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726589AbfEPF5M (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2019 01:57:12 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:51570 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726324AbfEPF5L (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2019 01:57:11 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3648820818; Thu, 16 May 2019 05:57:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1557986230; bh=Q7qR++elTHU3WNUzfNbH2FnOmoOxrV/+vBSVYyJs4AM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=0+tMQ/JldqKcHcdise1vEQoNGFJcfcl79bo7I6kb2Kk9w1zf6i1ZnnxcH2kEj2Elz cmiFROdWtefVTlOvsR6VG6jl1aAESMQesco1WiPPfZd+HjWHYxtDe9xDhgmJZwySjJ NPXmqT04jOup4n5wM8t6ibfr5J1a2bE1/EpzRovE= Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 07:57:08 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, "Tobin C. Harding" , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 78/86] bridge: Fix error path for kobject_init_and_add() Message-ID: <20190516055708.GA12518@kroah.com> References: <20190515090642.339346723@linuxfoundation.org> <20190515090655.622147146@linuxfoundation.org> <20190515204840.GE11749@eros.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190515204840.GE11749@eros.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 06:48:40AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:55:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: "Tobin C. Harding" > > > > [ Upstream commit bdfad5aec1392b93495b77b864d58d7f101dc1c1 ] > > Greg you are not going to back port all of these kobject fixes are you? > There is going to be a _lot_ of them. I'm not super comfortable > generating all this work for you. And besides that, I keep making > mistakes (reference to last nights find of double free in powerpc that > you reviewed already), then we have to back port those too. > > For the record I've been going through all uses of kobject and splitting > them into categories > > 1. Broken > 2. Too complex to immediately tell > 3. Done correctly > > I'm not getting many in category #3, let's hope that some in #1 and #2 are > my misunderstanding and that many in #2 should be in #3. I'm having fun > fixing them but I shudder at making life hard for other people. I took this one as it was forwarded on to me by David Miller as a fix to be queued up for networking issues. If a maintainer wants to mark the patch for stable, I'll be glad to take it, but I'm not going to be going and digging all of these out by hand an backporting them :) thanks, greg k-h