Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: take ownership of saved RX state at poll entry

[James Hilliard]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 10:59 PM <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:
>
>  - How the issue was discovered, e.g. hit in production, hit during
>    development, syzbot report, manual code inspection, LLM or static
>    analysis tool scan.

Found by source review of RX ownership and teardown while working on
the larger stmmac MTU/resume recovery series.

>  - Whether the issue was actually triggered, or is only theoretical
>    (e.g. found by code inspection). If it was triggered please include
>    the symptoms, like the stack trace or error messages.

The stale ownership was reproduced in host tests of the RX code, not
as a physical-hardware use-after-free.

>  - 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.

The changes were included in earlier integration testing on Allwinner
H616 hardware with sun8i EMAC1 and an AC300 PHY.

> 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.