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Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:44:28 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Cc:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Vladimir Benes <vbenes@redhat.com>, kernel-team@android.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] driver core: Skip unnecessary work when device
 doesn't have sync_state()
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:03:28PM +0100, Davide Caratti wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 00:05 -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > A bunch of busy work is done for devices that don't have sync_state()
> > support. Stop doing the busy work.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/core.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> 
> hello Greg,
> 
> this patch and patch 2/3 of the same series proved to fix systematic
> crashes (NULL pointer dereference in device_links_flush_sync_list() while
> loading mac80211_hwsim.ko, see [1]) on Fedora 31, that are triggered by
> NetworkManager-ci [2]. May I ask to queue these two patches for the next
> 5.5 stable?

What are the git commit ids of these patches in Linus's tree that you
want backported?

thanks,

greg k-h