Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] virtio: console: prevent use-after-free of port name in port unplug

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On (Thu) 01 Aug 2013 [10:29:35], Rusty Russell wrote:
> Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On (Mon) 29 Jul 2013 [14:26:09], Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> > Remove the debugfs path before freeing port->name, to prevent a possible
> >> > use-after-free.
> >> >
> >> > Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> Applied,
> >> Rusty.
> >
> > Hey Rusty, I don't see this patch in your virtio-next branch:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux.git/log/?h=virtio-next
> >
> > The others are present there.  Looks like this one got missed?
> 
> Actually, it's in my pending-rebases branch, since it requireds things
> from the fixes branch.  Once the fixes branch has gone to Linus (this
> week) I will merge it into the virtio-next branch then apply this on
> top.

Ah, thanks!

> It's generally considered bad form to merge into -next branches, but
> it's allowed for cases like this.  But I want to make sure no changes to
> fixes are required before I merge it, hence the delay for some exposure
> in linux-next.

Got it, thanks for the explanation!

		Amit
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