Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 002/205] drm/panfrost: Add missing check for pfdev->regulator

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:18:45AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 05:59:09PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:12:27PM +0000, Steven Price wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 04:39:37PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > From: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > [ Upstream commit 52282163dfa651849e905886845bcf6850dd83c2 ]
> > > 
> > > This commit is effectively already in 5.4. Confusingly there were two
> > > versions of this upstream:
> > > 
> > > 52282163dfa6 ("drm/panfrost: Add missing check for pfdev->regulator")
> > > c90f30812a79 ("drm/panfrost: Add missing check for pfdev->regulator")
> > > 
> > > It got merged both through a -fixes branch and through the normal merge
> > > window. The two copies caused a bad merge in mainline and this was
> > > effectively reverted in commit 603e398a3db2 ("drm/panfrost: Remove NULL
> > > check for regulator").
> > > 
> > > c90f30812a79 is included in v5.4 so should already be in any v5.4.y
> > > release.
> > 
> > Have I mentioned this month just how much I hate the way the DRM tree
> > handles stable patches like this?  This kind of fallout is a pain for
> > stable maintainers, I dred every time I see a drm patch tagged for
> > stable.
> > 
> > But we've been over this all before :(
> 
> Another example is:
> 
> 29cd13cfd762 ("drm/v3d: Fix memory leak in v3d_submit_cl_ioctl")
> 0d352a3a8a1f ("drm/v3d: don't leak bin job if v3d_job_init fails.")
> 
> Two fixes for a memory leak were merged so now it's a double free.  I
> sent a patch on Jan 10 but no one responded.

Have a link to the patch?  I can't seem to find it :(
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