From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 962EC1474CC; Mon, 9 Mar 2026 07:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773041640; cv=none; b=uA5Qh5PFSfNyEChpuPMBQWvcJmSiv3AIntloQV4tVFDprJIyr+n24EuAfbaf6iA5y5p5U5496DPT4yy7eogKLNYt3lcl7/1JFD+r2nl2MXfUbBB5qzGlVXpSwVdDzEVizrIElTDNipVtpNNsTTjzVQO2uV3c+7arQa2C0odVLbY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773041640; c=relaxed/simple; bh=rlCyKwXcQJicATG0ejS+Bw9m63m1OiUw1+YSAgoy528=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=hDzWLMd9JCKGZMPkmZPLy6ZiOwRFTi9ZmaWmREdgAD5RQZtFO1V5Sfa1cunXWgUbxxB89u0kR4PyDVRDfiSr2/8eTFgImh6F+vyouQWiDcH3AbQsB+eYQILQWagJTS4PXx+WxC4LHVQ1WkFV1H3suZzzgi993+Cy/lHJfFzCa6I= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=S6tVM0FA; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="S6tVM0FA" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64B27C4CEF7; Mon, 9 Mar 2026 07:33:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1773041639; bh=rlCyKwXcQJicATG0ejS+Bw9m63m1OiUw1+YSAgoy528=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=S6tVM0FAGduASaFRkvLCgQGudpMgIcxKkj0lFRGo1fPJBlifPPs7d/CHDiaA3pEe/ qmhhURdhGnDCfkEGSQntumjgIhj/7ccbXuyVutjQW/9VYNPUgHlkVoVR4cx3R4P5MM hbL6lD2WvnT5w8q71vEOpO4gu/L+3m6yBw3k5+g4= Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 08:33:57 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Gui-Dong Han Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, sashal@kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich Subject: Re: Patch "driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree Message-ID: <2026030939-replace-refining-8b4f@gregkh> References: <20260308164617.27847-1-sashal@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 09:44:54AM +0800, Gui-Dong Han wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device() > > > > to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > driver-core-enforce-device_lock-for-driver_match_dev.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > Hi Sasha, > > Please drop this patch from 6.1 and all other stable queues. > > This commit was reverted upstream. Enforcing the device_lock here > introduced side effects [1]. We are currently developing a new > approach to fix the original issue [2]. > > Thanks. > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9de68394a615 > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/20260303115720.48783-1-dakr@kernel.org/ Now dropped from everywhere, thanks for catching this again. greg k-h