From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 09/15] kobject: Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del()
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:13:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914141318.GA3357018@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200914130526.1804913-9-sashal@kernel.org>
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:05:20AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 07ecc6693f9157cf293da5d165c73fb28fd69bf4 ]
>
> __kobject_del() is called from two places, in one where kobj is dereferenced
> before and thus can't be NULL, and in the other the NULL check is done before
> call. Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803083520.5460-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> lib/kobject.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index bbbb067de8ecd..e02f1bb67c99f 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -568,9 +568,6 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
> {
> struct kernfs_node *sd;
>
> - if (!kobj)
> - return;
> -
> sd = kobj->sd;
> sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
> sysfs_put(sd);
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Ouch, no, this patch should not be backported ANYWHERE or bad things
will happen.
Please drop from all AUTOSEL trees.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 13:05 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 01/15] NFSv4.1 handle ERR_DELAY error reclaiming locking state on delegation recall Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 02/15] scsi: pm8001: Fix memleak in pm8001_exec_internal_task_abort Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 03/15] scsi: libfc: Fix for double free() Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 04/15] scsi: lpfc: Fix FLOGI/PLOGI receive race condition in pt2pt discovery Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 05/15] regulator: pwm: Fix machine constraints application Sasha Levin
2020-09-15 7:55 ` Vincent Whitchurch
2020-09-20 14:05 ` Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 06/15] spi: spi-loopback-test: Fix out-of-bounds read Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 07/15] SUNRPC: stop printk reading past end of string Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 08/15] rapidio: Replace 'select' DMAENGINES 'with depends on' Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 09/15] kobject: Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del() Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 14:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-09-20 14:05 ` Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 10/15] nvme-fc: cancel async events before freeing event struct Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 11/15] f2fs: fix indefinite loop scanning for free nid Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 12/15] i2c: algo: pca: Reapply i2c bus settings after reset Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 13/15] spi: Fix memory leak on splited transfers Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 14/15] gcov: add support for GCC 10.1 Sasha Levin
2020-09-14 13:05 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 15/15] KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type Sasha Levin
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