Re: [PATCH] USB: core: document purpose of interface parent reference

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 10:28:32AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 10:18:08AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 10:54:17PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > > On Thu Oct 15, 2026 at 9:48 AM CEST, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > > See commits:
> > > >
> > > >   524134d42231 ("USB: don't cancel queued resets when unbinding drivers")
> > > >   af61396a992b ("driver core: fix parent lock use-after-free on USB disconnect")
> > > >
> > > > for further details.
> > > 
> > > The last one is now 0f554506a3fc ("driver core: fix parent lock use-after-free
> > > on USB disconnect"), and queued for a -fixes PR mid merge window.
> > > 
> > > Greg, please let me know if you want me to include this one, or if you will take
> > > it after -rc1 ist out.
> > 
> > I just grabbed it now, thanks.
> 
> I should have waited a bit with posting this one.
> 
> The commit id mentioned in the commit message above was changed when the
> driver core commit was moved from driver-core-testing to the
> driver-core-linus branch. I guess we can always find it via the patch
> link (or commit summary).

I can still edit this as it's not really lived long in my branch, what
should the text be here?

thanks,

greg k-h