28 Nov
2017
28 Nov
'17
5:29 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:56:05 +0100 Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:53:32AM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
From: Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com
Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info")
Without the patch, a device can't be thoroughly destroyed, because vmbus_device_register() -> kset_create_and_add() still holds a reference to the hv_device's device.kobj.
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com Cc: Stephen Hemminger sthemmin@microsoft.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Why is this marked for stable when the patch it "fixes" is in 4.15-rc1?
It doesn't need to go to stable.