This series continues the fix for the NULL dereference in
tipc_named_node_up() on an empty publication list.

Patch 1/3 carries Tung Nguyen's defer-to-workqueue approach, which
he posted on the thread as the replacement for the item-less bulk
from v2 and asked us to test. Tung's RFC only exists as an inline
diff in the thread, so I folded it into this series, keeping his
Signed-off-by. I tested it in our two-node QEMU setup (veth pair,
UDP bearers, node-id addressing), both with an unprivileged user
namespace and as root: the unpatched kernel panics on the first run
of the same reproducer, the patched one distributes normally with a
non-empty list.

While testing we found two residual issues in the approach, fixed by
patches 2/3 and 3/3.

Patch 2/3: tipc_net_finalize() does not check the return value of
tipc_nametbl_publish(). If the publish fails, for example on a
GFP_ATOMIC allocation failure, the node is finalized but cluster_scope
stays empty. The deferred worker then calls named_distribute() with
an empty list and hits the same NULL dereference, this time on the
workqueue. With this patch the worker re-checks the list and skips
cleanly, no crash and no link flap. The tail stamp in
named_distribute() also gets an empty-queue guard.

Patch 3/3: a repeated NODE_UP while the bulk work is pending takes a
node reference that is never dropped, because schedule_work() returns
false when the work is already queued. Found by flapping the bearer
during the defer window. One reference is leaked per repeated
NODE_UP.

Changes in v8:
 - Attribution text fix only, no code changes. The defer approach
   is Tung Nguyen's work; earlier versions wrongly credited
   Jon Maloy.

Changes in v7:
 - Patch 1/3: add the missing kernel-doc description for the new work
   member of struct tipc_node, fixing the W=1 build warning reported
   by the kernel test robot. No code change.
 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260718090931.724303-1-bestswngs@gmail.com/ (local)

Changes in v6:
 - Make the series self-contained: fold Tung Nguyen's base patch into
   the series (1/3), keeping his Signed-off-by. The version sent as
   v5 only carried the two follow-ups and depended on his patch from
   the thread; the code changes in 2/3 and 3/3 are unchanged from
   that version.
 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260717185701.2828080-1-bestswngs@gmail.com/ (local)

Changes in v5:
 - Replace the item-less bulk approach with Tung Nguyen's
   defer-to-workqueue RFC, which fixes the reported bug in our
   testing.
 - Fix two residual issues found during testing (patches 2/3, 3/3).

Weiming Shi (3):
  tipc: fix NULL deref in tipc_named_node_up() on empty publication list
  tipc: fix NULL deref in deferred bulk distribution on publish failure
  tipc: fix node reference leak when defer work is already pending

 net/tipc/core.c       |  1 +
 net/tipc/core.h       |  2 ++
 net/tipc/name_distr.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 net/tipc/name_distr.h |  3 ++-
 net/tipc/net.c        |  5 ++++-
 net/tipc/node.c       | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 6 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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