linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4/5.10 0/1] mac80211: mesh: embedd mesh_paths and mpp_paths into ieee80211_if

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Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:03:00 +0300
From:   Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@...ras.ru>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@...ras.ru>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
        lvc-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: [PATCH 5.4/5.10 0/1] mac80211: mesh: embedd mesh_paths and mpp_paths into ieee80211_if_mesh

The null-ptr-deref problem fixed in the following patch is hit on older
branches.

The patch failed to be initially backported into stable branches older
than 5.15 due to the fix-spell-comment commit ab4040df6efb ("mac80211: fix
some spelling mistakes"). Now it can be cleanly applied to the 5.4/5.10
stable branches.

I'm not sure if the comment-fix patch should be backported in these cases,
too (to prevent similar potential future backport fails). Probably not.
So I just adapted the backport patch in-place.