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

[Saravana Kannan]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:03 PM Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@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)!

This was reported internally on some backports I did of 1/3. But I
forgot 1/3 was cherry-picked onto stable releases too. Otherwise, I'd
have reported this upstream too.

Thanks for reporting this and sorry about the breakage. 2/3 and 3/3
weren't meant to be fixes for 1/3, but they just happened to fix 1/3.
Problems of testing a series I suppose.

Thanks,
Saravana