> This patch seems to be a part of a series without being marked as such, The mentioned patch affects only a single function implementation. > this causes issues when importing this patch with maintainer tools > like b4 which automatically pull in the entire series and not > just the specific patch. It is a pity that there are special technical difficulties. > Either label the patch as being part of a series ( [PATCH 1/XX] ), Further software modules were similarly affected. See also: Reconsidering pointer dereferences before null pointer checks (with SmPL) https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/1a11455f-ab57-dce0-1677-6beb8492a257@xxxxxx/ https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2023-04/msg00021.html > or submit it separately. I thought that I did that (in principle). Regards, Markus
