netdev - Re: [PATCH] ax25: Fix memory leaks caused by ax25_cb

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:05:08 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
Cc:     linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jreuter@...na.de, kuba@...nel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, ralf@...ux-mips.org, thomas@...erried.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ax25: Fix memory leaks caused by ax25_cb_del()

This is a very frustrating patch because you make a lot of unnecessary
white space changes and you didn't run checkpatch on your patch.

The whole approach feels like the wrong thing...

I have read your commit message, but I don't understand why we can't
just use normal refcounting.  It sounds like there is a layering
violation somewhere?

Even if we go with this approach ->kill_flag and ->bind_flag should be
booleans.  It makes no sense to have a unsigned long where only BIT(2)
can be set.

regards,
dan carpenter