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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:44:45 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost_task: Fix vhost_task_create return value
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 03:37:19AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:56:05PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> > vhost_task_create is supposed to return the vhost_task or NULL on
> > failure. This fixes it to return the correct value when the allocation
> > of the struct fails.
> > 
> > Fixes: 77feab3c4156 ("vhost_task: Allow vhost layer to use copy_process") # mainline only
> > Reported-by: syzbot+6b27b2d2aba1c80cc13b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> The affected patch is not upstream yet, right?
> I don't know if the tree in question allows rebases - linux-next
> does. So ideally it would be squashed to avoid issues during bisect.
> Still it's error path so I guess not a tragedy even without squashing.

I tend to not rebase once stuff has been in linux-next but I make
exceptions as long as it's before -rc4. For now I've put the patch on
top (see the other mail I sent) but if it's really important I can
squash it after the weekend (I'll be mostly afk until then.).