From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl0-f66.google.com ([209.85.160.66]:41067 "EHLO mail-pl0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752485AbdK1R3s (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:29:48 -0500 Received: by mail-pl0-f66.google.com with SMTP id g2so319254pli.8 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:29:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:29:40 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Greg KH Cc: kys@microsoft.com, olaf@aepfle.de, sthemmin@microsoft.com, jasowang@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.cerri@canonical.com, apw@canonical.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, vkuznets@redhat.com, leann.ogasawara@canonical.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset Message-ID: <20171128092940.0cec2377@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: <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> <20171128155605.GA19015@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:56:05 +0100 Greg KH wrote: > 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? It doesn't need to go to stable.