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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ghadi Rahme <ghadi.rahme@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
	Paulo Alcantara <pc@cjr.nz>,
	Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>,
	Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>,
	Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>, Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6.1.y] smb/dfs_cache: Fix NULL pointer dereference on session connection failure
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:10:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026033140-endearing-handcraft-b66a@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7c5ecb2-d46c-4061-a70a-c7b149db56f2@canonical.com>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 09:59:01AM +0300, Ghadi Rahme wrote:
> > Again, wrong git id :(
> 
> Thank you for reviewing this.
> 
> There is not direct fix to this issue upstream however upstream is no longer
> affected by this issue.

Then why not backport the specific changes that caused newer kernels to
not be affected?

> The commit ID I referenced is the commit that indirectly resolved this issue
> by completely refactoring the code which led to the removal of the function
> I patched.
> 
> Is there a better way I can convey this in a V3 maybe?

Backport the same changes?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-19 14:49 [PATCH v2 6.1.y] smb/dfs_cache: Fix NULL pointer dereference on session connection failure Ghadi Elie Rahme
2026-03-23 13:01 ` Greg KH
2026-03-31  6:59   ` Ghadi Rahme
2026-03-31  7:10     ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-03-31  7:54       ` Ghadi Rahme
2026-03-31  8:27         ` Greg KH

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