Re: dpaa_eth bad stable backport [was: [PATCHES] Networking]

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 04:24:24PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/28/2018, 05:35 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > Please queue up the following networking bug fixes for v4.14 and v4.15
> > -stable, respecetively.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if this commit from this batch is correct in 4.14 and 4.15:
> commit 5bbb99d2fde047df596379be6c58e265e2ddbe1f
> Author: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Mar 14 08:37:29 2018 -0500
> 
>     dpaa_eth: fix error in dpaa_remove()
> 
>     [ Upstream commit 88075256ee817041d68c2387f29065b5cb2b342a ]
> 
> 
> 
> In 4.14 and 4.15, the drvdata are set like this:
>         dev = &pdev->dev;
>
>         dev_set_drvdata(dev, net_dev);
> 
> Opposing to 4.16:
>         dev = pdev->dev.parent;
>
>         dev_set_drvdata(dev, net_dev);
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So the change in dpaa_remove done by the commit above is wrong IMO:
> -       dev = &pdev->dev;
> +       dev = pdev->dev.parent;
>         net_dev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> 
> 
> 
> Hence this should be reverted from 4.14-LTS. I think 4.15 is dead.

Now reverted, thanks.

greg k-h



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