linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 096/542] powerpc/powernv/ioda: Fix ref count for devices with their own PE

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Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:12:12 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 096/542] powerpc/powernv/ioda: Fix ref count
 for devices with their own PE

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 09:49:41AM +0100, Frederic Barrat wrote:
>
>
>Le 14/02/2020 à 16:41, Sasha Levin a écrit :
>>From: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>
>>
>>[ Upstream commit 05dd7da76986937fb288b4213b1fa10dbe0d1b33 ]
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Upstream commit 05dd7da76986937fb288b4213b1fa10dbe0d1b33 doesn't 
>really need to go to stable (any of 4.19, 5.4 and 5.5). While it's 
>probably safe, the patch replaces a refcount leak by another one, 
>which makes sense as part of the full series merged in 5.6-rc1, but 
>isn't terribly useful standalone on the current stable branches.

I'll drop it, thank you.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha