On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@linux.microsoft.com> wrote: > > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com> > > 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: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 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.
