Re: [PATCH net 2/3] dpll: zl3073x: use __dpll_device_change_ntf() and remove change_work

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 27 May 2026 09:51:43 +0200 Ivan Vecera wrote:
> On 5/26/26 9:45 AM, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> > The change_work was introduced to send device change notifications
> > from DPLL device callbacks without deadlocking on dpll_lock, since
> > the callbacks are already invoked under that lock. Now that
> > __dpll_device_change_ntf() is exported for callers that already
> > hold dpll_lock, use it directly and remove the change_work
> > infrastructure entirely.
> > 
> > This eliminates a race condition where change_work could be
> > re-scheduled after cancel_work_sync() during device teardown,
> > potentially causing the handler to dereference a freed or NULL
> > dpll_dev pointer.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9363b4837659 ("dpll: zl3073x: Allow to configure phase offset averaging factor")
> > Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>  
> 
> Hi Kuba & Paolo,
> 
> patchwork reported netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn failure for this
> patch. But it looks weird:
> 
> https://netdev-ctrl.bots.linux.dev/logs/build/1100767/14594344/build_allmodconfig_warn/stderr
> 
> I don't understand how this is related to this patch.

Sparse randomly generates this once a week on a seemingly random patch,
I haven't dug into why. Safe to ignore.