Re: [PATCH] workqueue: fix null-ptr-deref on __alloc_workqueue() error
From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Tue Aug 20 2024 - 20:07:38 EST
On (24/08/20 23:56), Matthew Brost wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:54:12AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (24/08/19 11:15), Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 02:45:20AM +0000, Matthew Brost wrote:
> > > > > Tejun, how do you plan to handle this? Would it be possible to
> > > > > drop current series from your tree so that Matthew can send an
> > > > > updated version (with all the fixes squashed)?
> > > >
> > > > Tejun, yes let me know how to move forward with this as it is highly
> > > > desired for Intel Xe team to get this into 6.12.
> > >
> > > Can you just send a fixup patch?
> >
> > Well, this will make the tree unbisectable (for a range of versions),
> > because the errors in question break the boot.
>
> Can the patches not just get squashed together in the 6.12 PR?
squash would be my personal preference. Usually resend works in cases
like this (so that Link: in commit messages point to the relevant
thread), but I don't know what Tejun's planning to do.