On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 02:42:27PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 10. 03. 20, 13:38, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit 21eb93f432b1a785df193df1a56a59e9eb3a985f upstream. > > > > The initial patch that added sync_state() support didn't handle the case > > where a supplier has no consumers. This was because when a device is > > successfully bound with a driver, only its suppliers were checked to see > > if they are eligible to get a sync_state(). This is not sufficient for > > devices that have no consumers but still need to do device state clean > > up. So fix this. > > > > Fixes: fc5a251d0fd7ca90 (driver core: Add sync_state driver/bus callback) > > This causes NULL ptr dereferences (in 5.5 only). It is enough to load > the mac80211_hwsim module. > > The backport to 5.5 needs at least these two commits: > commit ac338acf514e7b578fa9e3742ec2c292323b4c1a > Author: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 21 00:05:09 2020 -0800 > > driver core: Add dev_has_sync_state() > > commit 77036165d8bcf7c7b2a2df28a601ec2c52bb172d > Author: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 21 00:05:10 2020 -0800 > > driver core: Skip unnecessary work when device doesn't have sync_state() > > > and playing with includes. > > I am not sure if a revert wouldn't be better -- leaving up to maintainers. > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167245 These are already queued up, I think I'll push out an update in a bit with them in a release... thanks, greg k-h
