WTF: patch "[PATCH] fw_cfg: fix driver remove" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree?

WTF: patch "[PATCH] fw_cfg: fix driver remove" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree?

[gregkh]

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
<stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 23f1b8d938c861ee0bbb786162f7ce0685f722ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:55:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fw_cfg: fix driver remove
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On driver remove(), all objects created during probe() should be
removed, but sysfs qemu_fw_cfg/rev file was left. Also reorder
functions to match probe() error cleanup code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
index 5cfe39f7a45f..deb483064f53 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
@@ -582,9 +582,10 @@ static int fw_cfg_sysfs_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	pr_debug("fw_cfg: unloading.\n");
 	fw_cfg_sysfs_cache_cleanup();
+	sysfs_remove_file(fw_cfg_top_ko, &fw_cfg_rev_attr.attr);
+	fw_cfg_io_cleanup();
 	fw_cfg_kset_unregister_recursive(fw_cfg_fname_kset);
 	fw_cfg_kobj_cleanup(fw_cfg_sel_ko);
-	fw_cfg_io_cleanup();
 	return 0;
 }