This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git in the driver-core-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:27:06 +0300 Subject: kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)

The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del() with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.

Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Qu Wenruo quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com Cc: Heikki Krogerus heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.int... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- lib/kobject.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 3afb939f2a1c..9dce68c378e6 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -637,8 +637,12 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) */ void kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj) { - struct kobject *parent = kobj->parent; + struct kobject *parent; + + if (!kobj) + return;

+ parent = kobj->parent; __kobject_del(kobj); kobject_put(parent); }