Re: Applied "spi: dynamycally allocated message initialization" to the spi tree

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The patch
>
>    spi: dynamycally allocated message initialization

Shouldn't this contain the keyword "fix":

    spi: Fix dynamically allocated message initialization

Else it looks like an innocent change.

And a Fixes-tag would be nice, too.

> has been applied to the spi tree at
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git
>
> All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
> tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
> the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if
> problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted.
>
> You may get further e-mails resulting from automated or manual testing
> and review of the tree, please engage with people reporting problems and
> send followup patches addressing any issues that are reported if needed.
>
> If any updates are required or you are submitting further changes they
> should be sent as incremental updates against current git, existing
> patches will not be replaced.

Ugh...

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> to this mail.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> From ed77d6bcafd75d247cf3c6ad685aa221cda1b8ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Emiliano Ingrassia <ingrassia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:49:29 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] spi: dynamycally allocated message initialization
>
> Invoke the proper function while initializing
> a dynamically allocated spi_message to avoid
> NULL pointer dereference during resources deallocation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emiliano Ingrassia <ingrassia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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