On Wed, 2 May 2018, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 01:18:07PM +0200, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote: > > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 00:35 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > PCI: endpoint: Fix kernel panic after put_device() > > > > > to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > > pci-endpoint-fix-kernel-panic-after-put_device.patch > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory. > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > This patch is the 2nd one of a series of patches. If you want to add it > > to the stable tree without the first patch, you must add a > > > > + kfree(func_name); > > > > before returning from the function. > > > > The upstream commit of the first patch is > > 36cc14ac14c0d49d33820a82dab52a7edc802fef PCI: endpoint: Simplify name > > allocation for EPF device > > Thanks for letting me know, I'll just drop this patch as without the > first one, this isn't needed and isn't an issue, right? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > It is still an issue (even without the first one!), but it will only occur on PCI endpoints when setting the devicename or adding the device fails. Therefore I think you can drop this patch for the stable series. Thank you, Rolf
