Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] net: dsa: motorcomm: Fix MIB synchronization

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM [off-list ref] wrote:

[Severity: Medium]
Should this carry a Fixes: tag?  The unsynchronized 64-bit MIB accessors
and .get_stats64() came in with 186623f4aa724c ("net: dsa: yt921x: Add
support for Motorcomm YT921x"), so this is a fix to already-merged driver
code.

Related to that, the fix does not look self-contained: the counter type
conversion lives in the preceding patch "net: dsa: motorcomm: Use
u64_stats_t for MIB stats", whose changelog says "u64_stats_sync will be
equipped in the next commit", and this commit also builds on "Rename MIB
stuffs", "Split MIB buffers" and "Split MIB module".

Since neither commit alone closes the tearing window, how would a stable
backport of this fix be done without pulling in the whole refactor series?

This is a low-risk issue and does not affect control paths. Also it
would be quite impossible to backport it since the whole series is to
fix this and it would require major refactor on the struct.