linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: Fix bad pointer dereference in hv_get_partition

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Message-ID: <af37c1e6-4d94-4259-b5b3-0cbc60b6beb6@web.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 16:02:05 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@...ux.microsoft.com>,
 linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
 Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>, "K. Y. Srinivasan"
 <kys@...rosoft.com>, Michael Kelley <mhklinux@...look.com>,
 Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: Fix bad pointer dereference in
 hv_get_partition_id

> 'output' is already a pointer to the output argument, it should be
> passed directly to hv_do_hypercall() without the '&' operator.

See also:
https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.14#n94

How do you think about to append parentheses to the function name
in the summary phrase?

Regards,
Markus