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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:01:36 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.15 546/780] USB: serial: bus: fix const issue in
 usb_serial_device_match()
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:08:19AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 05:24:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 6.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 92cd405b648605db4da866f3b9818b271ae84ef0 ]
> > 
> > usb_serial_device_match() takes a const pointer, and then decides to
> > cast it away into a non-const one, which is not a good thing to do
> > overall.  Fix this up by properly setting the pointers to be const to
> > preserve that attribute.
> > 
> > Fixes: d69d80484598 ("driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *")
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> 
> I believe I already asked for this one to be dropped since it does not
> really fix anything and therefore does not meet the criteria for stable
> backport. The stable tag was as usual left out on purpose.

Now dropped from everywhere, sorry about that.

greg k-h