linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] VMCI: Fix a couple of failure paths in vmci_guest_probe

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Date:   Wed, 9 Mar 2022 19:33:10 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@...are.com,
        bryantan@...are.com, rjalisatgi@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMCI: Fix a couple of failure paths in
 vmci_guest_probe_device()

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 10:24:56AM -0800, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
> notification_bitmap may not be released when VMCI_CAPS_DMA_DATAGRAM
> capability is missing from the device.  Add missing
> 'err_free_notification_bitmap' label and use it instead of
> 'err_free_data_buffers' to avoid this.
> 
> free_irq() may be called to free an interrupt that was not
> allocated.  Add missing 'if' statement to check for
> exclusive_vectors when freeing interrupt 1.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>
> Reviewed-by: Rajesh Jalisatgi <rjalisatgi@...are.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>
> ---
> The patches which introduced these bugs are not in any released
> kernels nor RC yet, so this fix does not need to be backported.

So this has to get into 5.17-final?  If not, it should be backported to
5.17, right?  You should always include the "Fixes:" tag in the commit
message so that we can figure this out.

And shouldn't this be 2 different patches?  Please break up.

thanks,

greg k-h