Re: [PATCH] serial: core: fix NULL pointer dereference in serial_core_unregister_port()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 10:06:26AM +0200, Ruslan Valiyev wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 09:53:34AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > It's an invalid syzbot reproducer, if root tells the kernel to unbind
> > from a device when it is being used, it gets to keep the pieces when
> > things break :(
> >
> > Let me go polish off my "taint the kernel if bind/unbind runs" patch to
> > keep this from happening...
> 
> Understood, thanks for looking at it so quickly. I'll drop the patch.

It's not an invalid change, just fix it up to be sane and we can take
it.

> > Did you forget an Assisted-by: tag?
> 
> Yes. The patch was AI-assisted and should have included
> 
>   Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
>   Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
> 
> I worked from submitting-patches.rst for the tag order and did not read
> coding-assistants.rst. My mistake, and it will be on anything I send in future.

Your LLM should have read that file and added it automatically.  If not,
you're "holding it wrong" when using those tools as there's lots of text
in there that it should be reading.

thanks,

greg k-h