[PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: phy: Clear the netdev context pointer for DUMP requests

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Thu Sep 12 20:44:38 PDT 2024


On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:46:21 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> +		/* Clear the context netdev pointer so avoid a netdev_put from
> +		 * the .done() callback
> +		 */
> +		ctx->phy_req_info->base.dev = NULL;

Why do we assign to req_base.dev in the first place?
req is for the parsed request in my mind, and I don't
see anything in the PHY dump handlers actually using dev?



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