netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/5] net/smc: bugfixs for smc-r

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Message-ID: <4a1b965e-b026-45d7-bd09-7b23b797ee90@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:43:20 +0200
From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
To: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com>, kgraul@...ux.ibm.com,
        wenjia@...ux.ibm.com, jaka@...ux.ibm.com
Cc: kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] net/smc: bugfixs for smc-r

The subject of the thread says 'smc-r', but some of the changes affect smc-d alike,
don't they?

On 11.10.23 09:33, D. Wythe wrote:
> From: "D. Wythe" <alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com>
> 
> This patches contains bugfix following:
> 
> 1. hung state
> 2. sock leak
> 3. potential panic 
> 

I may be helpful for the reviewers, when you point out, which patch fixes which problem.

Were they all found by code reviews?
Or did some occur in real life? If so, then what were the symptoms?
A description of the symptoms is helpful for somebody who is debugging and wants to check
whether the issue was already fixed upstream.