From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932085AbdK1P4E (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:56:04 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44738 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753230AbdK1P4C (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:56:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:56:05 +0100 From: Greg KH To: kys@microsoft.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, leann.ogasawara@canonical.com, marcelo.cerri@canonical.com, sthemmin@microsoft.com, Dexuan Cui , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset Message-ID: <20171128155605.GA19015@kroah.com> References: <1510667553-2991-1-git-send-email-kys@exchange.microsoft.com> <1510667613-3035-1-git-send-email-kys@exchange.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1510667613-3035-1-git-send-email-kys@exchange.microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:53:32AM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com wrote: > From: Dexuan Cui > > Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info") > > Without the patch, a device can't be thoroughly destroyed, because > vmbus_device_register() -> kset_create_and_add() still holds a reference > to the hv_device's device.kobj. > > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui > Cc: Stephen Hemminger > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Why is this marked for stable when the patch it "fixes" is in 4.15-rc1?