Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] usb: chipidea: core: convert ci_role_switch to local variable

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 06:20:02PM +0800, Xu Yang wrote:
> When a system contains multiple USB controllers, the global ci_role_switch
> variable may be overwritten by subsequent driver initialization code.
> 
> This can cause issues in the following cases:
>  - The 2nd ci_hdrc_probe() sees ci_role_switch.fwnode as non-NULL even
>    though the "usb-role-switch" property is not present for the controller.
>  - When the ci_hdrc device is unbound and bound again, ci_role_switch
>    fwnode will not be reassigned, and the old value will be used instead.
> 
> Convert ci_role_switch to a local variable to fix these issues.
> 
> Fixes: 05559f10ed79 ("usb: chipidea: add role switch class support")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>

You can not have patch 3 out of 3 be only for stable kernels.  Please
break this up into 2 different patch series, one for bugfixes to go to
7.1-final, and the other for new stuff for 7.2-rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h