netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix double drop dev reference

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Date:   Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:19:36 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bianpan2016@....com
Cc:     johannes.berg@...el.com, andreyknvl@...gle.com,
        opensource@...ayne.com, swinslow@...il.com, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        tglx@...utronix.de, 92siuyang@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix double drop dev reference

From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Date: Wed,  6 Nov 2019 20:05:43 +0800

> The function nfc_put_device(dev) is called twice to drop the reference
> to dev when there is no associated local llcp. Remove one of them to fix
> the bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>

This is a change to the nfc subsystem not to the netlink subsystem,
therefore the appropriate subsystem prefix is "nfc: " and probably
therefore:

	Subject: [PATCH] nfc: Fix double device reference drop in netlink code.

or something like that.