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Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:10:20 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Ghadi Rahme Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Steve French , Paulo Alcantara , Ronnie Sahlberg , Shyam Prasad N , Tom Talpey , Aurelien Aptel , 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 Message-ID: <2026033140-endearing-handcraft-b66a@gregkh> References: <20260319144929.455978-1-ghadi.rahme@canonical.com> <2026032339-irate-monsoon-76ce@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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