Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core fixes for 7.0-rc5

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 at 15:46, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (I will send out fixes for the remaining busses subsequently, so they can reach
> you through the corresponding subsystem trees -- treewide commit [1] for
> reference.)

I'm not convinced there are advantages to going through individual
trees - these are just buses working around driver core interface
issues, not some "bus X does bus X things".

That said, I'm also not convinced this is all really -rc material in
the first place. This issue is neither new nor does the UAF seem to be
triggerable in any actual realistic scenario, and requires root
privileges to trigger even in the unrealistic case.

IOW, why isn't this just left until the next merge window? And then
done as a "just clean everything up" instead of trying to push things
through individual driver trees that almost certainly don't care about
this anyway?

                 Linus