Re: [PATCH iwl-net] ice: wait for in-flight Rx polls before freeing a representor

From: Linkui Xiao

Date: Mon Oct 12 2026 - 04:41:34 EST



On 2026/10/12 15:34, netdev-bot+sinfo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi!

This is an automated message. This series looks like a fix, but its
commit messages seem to be missing some information:

- 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,
reply to this email with the missing information, so that reviewers
can take it into account. If the series needs another revision for
other reasons, please include the information in the commit messages
then.

The evaluation is done by an LLM so it may be wrong, if you think
that is the case please reply and explain.

Hi,

Thanks for the reminder. This change was not tested on real hardware. It was
found by code inspection of the representor teardown path; I did not reproduce
the UAF at runtime and no stack trace was observed. The fix is based on the
RCU/NAPI lifetime analysis described in the commit message.

If a future revision is needed for other reasons, I will make sure to include
this information in the commit message.

Thanks,
Linkui