[PATCH v14 00/12] net: pcs: Introduce support for fwnode PCS

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:35:05 +0200 Christian Marangi wrote:
> This series introduce a most awaited feature that is correctly
> provide PCS with fwnode without having to use specific export symbol
> and additional handling of PCS in phylink.
> 
> At times there were 2 different implementation (this and the one
> from Sean) but Sean agreed that this can be picked and used in favor
> of his implementation as long as his case with race condition is
> correctly handled.

Coccicheck says:

  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c:1039:31-34:
    ERROR: invalid reference to the index variable of the iterator on line 1028

  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c:1364:26-29:
    ERROR: invalid reference to the index variable of the iterator on line 1346

  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c:582:7-10:
    ERROR: invalid reference to the index variable of the iterator on line 569

I vaguely recall that you're supposed to make a copy of the pointer,
not just add a "found" boolean. Dunno if it ever happened but Linus
was trying to make the list iterators override the pointer on exit.