On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 12:56:55PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Sam Bobroff <sbobr...@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Correct two cases where eeh_pcid_get() is used to reference the driver's
> > module but the reference is dropped before the driver pointer is used.
> >
> > In eeh_rmv_device() also refactor a little so that only two calls to
> > eeh_pcid_put() are needed, rather than three and the reference isn't
> > taken at all if it wasn't needed.
> 
> This sounds like a crash or memory corruption bug?
> 
> But it doesn't have Fixes or Cc: stable. Is it not a major problem for
> some reason?

Only that I've exercised that code path a fair bit during testing and
never managed to cause a problem with it. I found it by inspection.

Do you think I should mark it fixes or stable in the next version?

> cheers
> 

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