Re: [PATCH 5.4] cifs/smb3: Fix NULL pointer dereference in smb2_query_info_compound()

[Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>]

On Wed, Apr 05 2023, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 02:26:04PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 05 2023, kernel test robot wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your patch.
>> > >
>> > > FYI: kernel test robot notices the stable kernel rule is not satisfied.
>> > >
>> > > Rule: 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org' or 'commit <sha1> upstream.'
>> >
>> > I think the robot should also learn to look at the 'To:' header :-)
>>
>> Nope, the robot is correct, you submitted this incorrectly.
>
> Wait, maybe, I can't tell.

My point is that it does not matter much if stable@vger.kernel.org is in
Cc or To. It gets the email regardless. In fact, that seems quite a
common practice to me [0][1]. So I'd say it would be nice if the robot
did not needlessly complain about this.

> Please send this again and provide a whole lot more detail as to why
> this is not relevant for upstream.

I went and took another look. It seems that this was also fixed in
upstream but in a slightly different way [2]. I will backport that patch
instead of this one.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230403140414.236685532@linuxfoundation.org/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230403140415.140110769@linuxfoundation.org/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=87f93d82e0952da18af4d978e7d887b4c5326c0b

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav



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