Re: [PATCH v2] kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Aug 25 2020 - 10:54:53 EST


On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:27:06AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in
> > kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del()
> > with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.
> >
> > Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()")
> > Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2: replaced ?: with plain conditional (Greg)
> > lib/kobject.c | 6 +++++-
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Thanks, much better, will queue up after -rc1 is out.

Shouldn't be this taken care of?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko