On Sat, 27 Sep 2025, Markus Elfring wrote:

quoted

Struct apple_smc's mutex was not initialized before use. Surprisingly
this only resulted in occasional NULL pointer dereferences in
apple_smc_read() calls from the probe() functions of sub devices.

See also:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc7#n94

Provide some context in your own words.

Don't expect others to click random links.

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