netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: prestera: acl: Add check for kmemdup

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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:15:27 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Cc:     tchornyi@...vell.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: prestera: acl: Add check for kmemdup

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:20:24 +0800 Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> As the kemdup could return NULL, it should be better to check the return
> value and return error if fails.
> Moreover, the return value of prestera_acl_ruleset_keymask_set() should
> be checked by cascade.
> 
> Fixes: 604ba230902d ("net: prestera: flower template support")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>

You must CC the authors of patch you're fixing. 
get_maintainer will do that for you I don't understand why people can't
simply run that script :/ You CC linux-kernel for no apparent reason
yet you don't CC the guy who wrote the original patch.
If you could please explain what is going on maybe we can improve the
tooling or something.