Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] net: ethernet: release managed IRQs before freeing netdevs
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 18:31:02 EST
On Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:47:33 +0800 Jiale Yao wrote:
> Several Ethernet platform drivers request interrupts with
> devm_request_irq() but allocate and free their netdevs manually.
> Device-managed resources are released only after the driver's remove
> callback returns, so these callbacks free the IRQ data while the interrupt
> handlers can still be invoked. A late or shared interrupt in this window
> can dereference freed memory.
This is an automated message. This series looks like a fix, but its
commit messages seem to be missing some information:
- How the issue was discovered, e.g. hit in production, hit during
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analysis tool scan.
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the symptoms, like the stack trace or error messages.
- What hardware the change was tested on. For driver fixes please
mention the device (and if relevant firmware version) used for
testing, or say that the change was not tested on real hardware.
Please do not repost the series just to address the above. Instead,
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