Re: Patch "PCI: endpoint: Fix kernel panic after put_device()" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 01:18:07PM +0200, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 00:35 AM <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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@vger.kernel.org> 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