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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
	Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>,
	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Jörg Reuter" <jreuter@yaina.de>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Lars Kellogg-Stedman" <lars@oddbit.com>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 2/4] ax25: Fix reference count leak issues of ax25_dev
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 11:12:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c09a28c-0336-4440-94c3-15337726ccd4@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ae9712b610b3d41ce0ce3bbe268c68de6c5914.1715065005.git.duoming@zju.edu.cn>

> The ax25_addr_ax25dev() and ax25_dev_device_down() exist a reference
> count leak issue of the object "ax25_dev".

Please improve this wording.

Suggestion:
   Two function implementations contained programming mistakes.
   Thus …


> Memory leak issue in ax25_addr_ax25dev():
>
> The reference count of the object "ax25_dev" can be increased multiple
> times in ax25_addr_ax25dev(). This will cause a memory leak so far.
…

* How do you think about to work with indentation in such a description
  for item enumeration?

* Would you like to add imperative wordings for improved changelogs?
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.9-rc7#n94

Regards,
Markus

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