Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:44:28 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] driver core: Skip unnecessary work when device doesn't have sync_state() |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:03:28PM +0100, Davide Caratti wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 00:05 -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote: > > A bunch of busy work is done for devices that don't have sync_state() > > support. Stop doing the busy work. > > > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> > > --- > > drivers/base/core.c | 4 +++- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > hello Greg, > > this patch and patch 2/3 of the same series proved to fix systematic > crashes (NULL pointer dereference in device_links_flush_sync_list() while > loading mac80211_hwsim.ko, see [1]) on Fedora 31, that are triggered by > NetworkManager-ci [2]. May I ask to queue these two patches for the next > 5.5 stable?
What are the git commit ids of these patches in Linus's tree that you want backported?
thanks,
greg k-h
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