Re: [PATCH net v3] net: emac: mal: replace devm_request_irq with request_irq to fix probe error race

From: Rosen Penev

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 18:26:28 EST


On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 8:42 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Oct 2026 12:20:08 -0700 Rosen Penev wrote:
> > > - How the issue was discovered, e.g. hit in production, hit during
> > > development, syzbot report, manual code inspection, LLM or static
> > > analysis tool scan.
> > LLM tool scan probably.
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> probably? Are you being sarcastic or you don't know?
It was. I asked it to find memory handling problems in the driver.
This was one of them.
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> > > - 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.
Just code inspection
> > >
> > > - 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.
Not tested.
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> Please answer all 3 questions.