From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>,
asahi@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>,
Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:55:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251001095505.GP8757@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bc9a4b3-7a8d-4bcf-9481-36fdc76e066c@web.de>
On Sat, 27 Sep 2025, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Struct apple_smc's mutex was not initialized before use. Surprisingly
> > this only resulted in occasional NULL pointer dereferences in
> > apple_smc_read() calls from the probe() functions of sub devices.
>
> See also:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc7#n94
Provide some context in your own words.
Don't expect others to click random links.
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-01 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-25 20:33 [PATCH] mfd: macsmc: Initialize mutex Janne Grunau
2025-09-27 2:28 ` Neal Gompa
2025-09-27 13:57 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-01 9:55 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2025-10-01 11:13 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-01 12:48 ` Lee Jones
2025-10-01 12:52 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-08 13:57 ` Lee Jones
2025-10-08 14:20 ` [PATCH] " Sven Peter
2025-10-21 15:09 ` Lee Jones
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