netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: marvell: Fix refcounting bugs in prestera_port_sfp

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Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2022 05:36:35 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Liang He" <windhl@....com>
Cc:     tchornyi@...vell.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        pabeni@...hat.com, linux@...linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: marvell: Fix refcounting bugs in
 prestera_port_sfp_bind()

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:02:52 +0800 (CST) Liang He wrote:
> At 2022-09-21 08:45:29, "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> >On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:06:55 +0800 Liang He wrote:  
> >> In prestera_port_sfp_bind(), there are two refcounting bugs:
> >> (1) we should call of_node_get() before of_find_node_by_name() as
> >> it will automaitcally decrease the refcount of 'from' argument;
> >> (2) we should call of_node_put() for the break of the iteration
> >> for_each_child_of_node() as it will automatically increase and
> >> decrease the 'child'.
> >> 
> >> Fixes: 52323ef75414 ("net: marvell: prestera: add phylink support")
> >> Signed-off-by: Liang He <windhl@....com>  
> >
> >Please repost and CC all the authors of the patch under Fixes.  
> 
> Thanks for your reply, Jakub
> 
> As I was the only one author, you mean following tag format:
> 
> ""
> Fixes: 52323ef75414 ("net: marvell: prestera: add phylink support")
> CC: Liang He <windhl@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Liang He <windhl@....com>

No, no, CC the authors of the patch under fixes, which is to say -
the patch which introduced the problem. The fixes tag you have is:

Fixes: 52323ef75414 ("net: marvell: prestera: add phylink support")

so:

commit 52323ef75414d60b17f683076833eb55a6bffa2b
Author: Oleksandr Mazur <oleksandr.mazur@...ision.eu>
Date:   Tue Jul 19 13:57:16 2022 +0300

    net: marvell: prestera: add phylink support
    
    For SFP port prestera driver will use kernel
    phylink infrastucture to configure port mode based on
    the module that has beed inserted
    
    Co-developed-by: Yevhen Orlov <yevhen.orlov@...ision.eu>
    Signed-off-by: Yevhen Orlov <yevhen.orlov@...ision.eu>
    Co-developed-by: Taras Chornyi <taras.chornyi@...ision.eu>
    Signed-off-by: Taras Chornyi <taras.chornyi@...ision.eu>
    Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Mazur <oleksandr.mazur@...ision.eu>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

I was asking to also CC Yevhen and Oleksandr. Taras seems already CCed.