Re: [PATCH net v7 0/7] can: fix bus-off restart and device close races

From: Heiko Stuebner

Date: Sat Nov 07 2026 - 11:07:10 EST


Hi,

Am Samstag, 7. November 2026, 03:57:26 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Cunhao Lu:
> > > This series depends on the three patches in "can: skb: make CAN skb
> > > freeing safe in any IRQ context" [1] and the three patches in "can:
> > > rockchip_canfd: fix TX stalls and races" [2].
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/tencent_CD05F020BAFB2537F5D1F4CBB425588EA80A@xxxxxx/
> > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/tencent_E25C9BE6689264E4138A464803B810FDFD09@xxxxxx/
> >
> > Both these series are from july and seemingly from before you started
> > using the b4-relay. So they may or may not have survived the kernel
> > releases and their threading is broken both on lore and in any maibox
> > they arrived in.
> >
> > And if there haven't been any responses to them since then, I'd think
> > they have been lost or so.
> >
> > So I'd suggest rolling both your dependencies forward on top of the can
> > tree and sending them as a new version, so that reviewers can find them?
>
> Thank you very much for the guidance! :-P
>
> I just checked: the "can: skb: make CAN skb freeing safe in any IRQ
> context" series was merged into mainline yesterday, so I won't send a
> new version of it. I'll remove its link from the cover letter.
>
> The "can: rockchip_canfd: fix TX stalls and races" series still has some
> issues reported by the bots during submission to the net tree that I
> need to address. Since those patches overlap with this series, I plan
> to fold them into the next version (v8) and send them together.

As that series is also "just" for the Rockchip CAN driver, merging both
sounds like a good plan - especially as it makes it easier to keep track
of things :-) .


Heiko