Re: [PATCH net-next v2] 6pack: drop redundant locking and refcounting

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Tue Sep 30 2025 - 04:30:17 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:10:59 +0800 you wrote:
> The TTY layer already serializes line discipline operations with
> tty->ldisc_sem, so the extra disc_data_lock and refcnt in 6pack
> are unnecessary.
>
> Removing them simplifies the code and also resolves a lockdep warning
> reported by syzbot. The warning did not indicate a real deadlock, since
> the write-side lock was only taken in process context with hardirqs
> disabled.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next,v2] 6pack: drop redundant locking and refcounting
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/38b04ed7072e

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