From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 <decui@microsoft.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171128155605.GA19015@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510667613-3035-1-git-send-email-kys@exchange.microsoft.com>
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:53:32AM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
>
> 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 <decui@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Why is this marked for stable when the patch it "fixes" is in 4.15-rc1?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-28 15:56 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1510667553-2991-1-git-send-email-kys@exchange.microsoft.com>
2017-11-14 13:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] vmbus: unregister device_obj->channels_kset kys
2017-11-28 15:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-11-28 17:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-11 20:41 ` Dexuan Cui
2017-12-11 20:58 ` Greg KH
2017-12-11 21:02 ` Dexuan Cui
2017-11-14 13:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a rescind issue kys
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