linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] lan743x: fix for potential NULL pointer dereference with bare card

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Message-ID: <20201127083925.4813c57a@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:39:25 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Sergej Bauer <sbauer@...ckbox.su>
Cc:     Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Markus.Elfring@....de,
        Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whitehead@...rochip.com>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] lan743x: fix for potential NULL pointer dereference
 with bare card

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:39:41 +0300 Sergej Bauer wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:41 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:  
> > > On Mon,  2 Nov 2020 01:35:55 +0300 Sergej Bauer wrote:  
> > > > This is the 3rd revision of the patch fix for potential null pointer
> > > > dereference with lan743x card.  
> > > 
> > > Applied, thanks!  
> > 
> > I noticed that this went into net-next. Is there a chance that it could also
> > be added to net? It's a real issue on 5.9, and the patch applies cleanly
> > there.  
> 
> It's my mistake - I missed pointing of stable branch.


> Should I resend the patch (with tag Cc:stable@...r.kernel.org)?

 Fixes tag would have been best. But it's too late
now, let's wait for the merge window and then we can back port it.