linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH net v1] drivers/net/bonding/bond

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Message-ID: <20221230195529.67a5266a@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:55:29 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH net v1] drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad: return when
 there's no aggregator

On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:44:02 +0300 Daniil Tatianin wrote:
> On 12/30/22 5:22 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:43:53 +0300 Daniil Tatianin wrote:  
> >> Otherwise we would dereference a NULL aggregator pointer when calling
> >> __set_agg_ports_ready on the line below.  
> > 
> > Fixes tag, please?  
> Looks like this code was introduced with the initial git import.
> Would that still be useful?

yessir, the point is to let backporters know how far the bug goes.
The initial import is our local equivalent of infinity, for all
practical purposes.