On 1/19/2022 11:02 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

17.01.2022 17:29, Hector Martin пишет:

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This unbreaks support for USB devices, which do not have a board_type
to create an alt_path out of and thus were running into a NULL
dereference.

Fixes: 5ff013914c62 ("brcmfmac: firmware: Allow per-board firmware binaries")
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <redacted>

Technically, all patches that are intended to be included into next
stable kernel update require the "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" tag.

Being the nit picker that I am I would say it is recommended to safe 
yourself extra work, not required, for the reason you give below.

In practice such patches usually auto-picked by the patch bot, so no
need to resend.

Regards,
Arend