linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] net: thunder_bgx: decrement cleanup index before use

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Message-ID: <20250902095025.GA15473@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 10:50:25 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	"moderated list:ARM/CAVIUM THUNDER NETWORK DRIVER" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: thunder_bgx: decrement cleanup index before use

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 02:33:14PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> All paths in probe that call goto defer do so before assigning phydev
> and thus it makes sense to cleanup the prior index. It also fixes a bug
> where index 0 does not get cleaned up.
> 
> Fixes: b7d3e3d3d21a ("net: thunderx: Don't leak phy device references on -EPROBE_DEFER condition.")
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>

As I reviewed an earlier revision (yesterday)
where this was part of another patch:

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>