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[2a02:3100:a8d0:bc01:6d31:3d12:3a11:d2d0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-6a09c660febsm1308537a12.28.2026.07.31.05.37.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:37:28 +0200 From: Karl Mehltretter To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby , Frank Li , Sascha Hauer , Pengutronix Kernel Team , Fabio Estevam , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered Message-ID: References: <20260719221014.44354-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> <20260719221014.44354-2-kmehltretter@gmail.com> <2026073056-embargo-rejoicing-87c2@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: <2026073056-embargo-rejoicing-87c2@gregkh> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 04:28:10PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > As this can only be duplicated with fault-injection, it really doesn't > need to go to any stable kernels, right? Agreed, I'll drop it. > > > + if (!uport->tty_groups) { > > + kfree(uport->name); > > + uport->name = NULL; > > Why set this to NULL? > It's not necessary. I will remove it. Thanks, Karl