Re: [PATCH v2] sound/hda: Add NULL check to component match callback function

Greg KH
2022-03-31T17:46:47Z

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:33:57AM -0700, Benson Leung wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:58:43AM -0700, Won Chung wrote:
> > > > So is this actually triggering on 5.17 right now? Or is it due to some
> > > > other not-applied changes you are testing at the moment?
> > > >
> > > > confused,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > I believe it is not causing an issue in 5.17 at the moment. It is
> > > triggered when we try to apply new changes and test it locally.
> > > (registering a component for usb4_port)
> >
> > Then why would it ever be needed to be backported to a stable kernel?
> >
> > Please be more careful.
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Sorry about that. I gave Won bad advice to cc stable. You're right, it will
> only be relevant when a future patch lands in usb4.

It isn't even relevant now, please only worry about this when you have
your patches ready for submission that causes this breakage.

thanks,

greg k-h