From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>,
Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:46:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803094659.GB635660@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:27:06AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in
> kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del()
> with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.
>
> Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()")
> Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> v2: replaced ?: with plain conditional (Greg)
> lib/kobject.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks, much better, will queue up after -rc1 is out.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 8:27 [PATCH v2] kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL) Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-03 8:45 ` Qu Wenruo
2020-08-03 9:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-08-25 14:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-25 15:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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