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Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 10:35:28 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] usb: typec: ucsi: Fix null pointer dereference in
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On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 01:03:12PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:39:17AM +0000, Jameson Thies wrote:
> > From: Abhishek Pandit-Subedi <abhishekpandit@chromium.org>
> > 
> > ucsi_register_altmode checks IS_ERR on returned pointer and treats
> > NULL as valid. When CONFIG_TYPEC_DP_ALTMODE is not enabled
> > ucsi_register_displayport returns NULL which causese a NULL pointer
> > dereference in trace. Rather than return NULL, call
> > typec_port_register_altmode to register DisplayPort alternate mode
> > as a non-controllable mode when CONFIG_TYPEC_DP_ALTMODE is not enabled.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Jameson Thies <jthies@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Abhishek Pandit-Subedi <abhishekpandit@chromium.org>
> 
> You delivered the patch, so you should have used SoB instead of
> Reviewed-by tag:
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by

Not "should", that would be "must". I can't take it like this, sorry.

greg k-h