From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Ruoyu Wang <ruoyuw560@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sungem: fix probe error cleanup
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:02:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260622170255.GJ827683@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260620155326.80582-1-ruoyuw560@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 11:53:26PM +0800, Ruoyu Wang wrote:
> gem_init_one() calls gem_remove_one() when register_netdev() fails.
> That path unregisters and frees resources owned by the net_device,
> then probe continues into its own cleanup labels and touches the same
> state again.
>
> Clear the driver data and remove the NAPI instance on this error path,
> then let the existing probe cleanup labels release the resources once.
Hi Ruoyu,
I think it would be useful to explain how this problem was found,
naming any publicly available tools that were used.
And to explain what testing has occurred.
>
A fixes tag should go here (no blank line between it and your
Signed-off-by line).
> Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Wang <ruoyuw560@gmail.com>
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2026-06-20 15:53 [PATCH] net: sungem: fix probe error cleanup Ruoyu Wang
2026-06-22 17:02 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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