> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2025 2:52 AM
> To: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH net] net: core: Fix the loop in
> default_device_exit_net()
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Haiyang Zhang
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
> >
> > The loop in default_device_exit_net() won't be able to properly detect
> the
> > head then stop, and will hit NULL pointer, when a driver, like
> hv_netvsc,
> > automatically moves the slave device together with the master device.
> >
> > To fix this, add a helper function to return the first migratable netdev
> > correctly, no matter one or two devices were removed from this net's
> list
> > in the last iteration.
> >
> > Cc: [email protected] # 5.4+
> 
> We (network maintainers) prefer a Fixes: tag, so that we can look at
> the blamed patch, rather than trusting your '5.4' hint.
> 
> Without a Fixes tag, you are forcing each reviewer to do the
> archeology work, and possibly completely miss your point.

Thanks. I will have the Fixes tag in the new patch.

- Haiyang

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