Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "rsi: fix potential null dereference in rsi_probe()"

[Kalle Valo]

Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 06:56:37PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >
>> >> This reverts commit f170d44bc4ec2feae5f6206980e7ae7fbf0432a0.
>> >>
>> >> USB core will never call a USB-driver probe function with a NULL
>> >> device-id pointer.
>> >>
>> >> Reverting before removing the existing checks in order to document this
>> >> and prevent the offending commit from being "autoselected" for stable.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > I'll queue these two to v5.4.
>> 
>> Actually I'll take that back. Commit f170d44bc4ec is in -next so I have
>> to also queue these to -next.
>
> That's right. I'm assuming you don't rebase your branches, otherwise
> just dropping the offending patch might of course be an option instead
> of the revert.

Yeah, I don't rebase my trees so we have to do a revert.

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