linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fsi: Fix error handling in fsi_slave

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Message-ID: <1d0676ce-a831-41ba-ba64-492ce797eb1f@web.de>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 09:18:45 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: make24@...as.ac.cn, linux-fsi@...ts.ozlabs.org,
 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
 Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>, Ninad Palsule <ninad@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsi: Fix error handling in fsi_slave_init

> fsi_slave_init() calls device_initialize() for slave->dev
> unconditionally. However, in the error paths, put_device() is not
> called, leading to an imbalance in the device reference count.
…

Would an other word wrapping be a bit nicer for such a change description?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.18-rc4#n658

Regards,
Markus