ACK/cmnt: [Cover Letter] Out of order reads can fetch a NULL pointer causing a kernel crash

Guilherme Piccoli gpiccoli at canonical.com
Tue Apr 27 13:14:06 UTC 2021


On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:58 AM Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> In some way I think, for the general review side the additional information is
> not needed that much. Since cloud kernels tend to see different needs in getting
> things done, I tend to let those responsible to the kernels apply patches when
> and as they think they need them. But I guess if the submission does not mention
> anything, it could happen to miss something like "we have to apply those ahead
> of time to aws kernels".
> One way or the other you probably will always face someone asking more or less
> stupid questions if things do not fit into the usual pockets.
>
> -Stefan

Heheh indeed Stefan that makes sense!

And thanks Kleber, that's a good idea - I'll do that next time, I
don't understand why I didn't follow my own tagging of the 3rd patch
in the cover letter heheh



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