Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] driver core: Skip unnecessary work when device doesn't have sync_state()

[Davide Caratti]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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?

thank you in advance (and thanks to Vladimir for reporting)!

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816765
[2] https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-ci
 
-- 
davide