On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 4:32 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I like that fix, which should make this patch obsolete, right? > > Yes, for that specific issue, but Linus seemed to think patch 1 was the > "right thing to do" regardless...
I would definitely prefer either a kobject_get_unless_zero() or a
warning if it is ever zero.
The fact that right now it silently can do known bad things, and then
causes odd corruption _later_, is not good.
Linus
